Exhibitions

Designing Cranbrook: The Saarinens’ Eclectic Vision

In 1925, George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth, the founders of Cranbrook, invited Finnish-born architect Eliel Saarinen to begin transforming their country estate into an ambitious campus of educational, artistic, and scientific inquiry. The endeavor was a collaborative project shaped by the Saarinen family, including sculptor and textile artist Loja Saarinen and their children, Pipsan and […]

Monumental Color: Cecily Brown, Sam Gilliam, and Joan Mitchell

Monumental Color: Cecily Brown, Sam Gilliam, and Joan Mitchell brings together significant artworks by three quintessential Abstract artists. The exhibition showcases the museum’s holdings of these artists alongside loans from the Masterworks Program, an initiative to share one of the largest private collections in contemporary art with public audiences. It will spotlight Cranbrook Art Museum’s […]

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The World of Anna Sui

Born and raised in metro Detroit, Anna Sui reinvented fashion and pop culture with her signature rock-and-roll romantic label in the 1990s and has remained an artistic fashion icon ever since. The World of Anna Sui at Cranbrook Art Museum represents the international American fashion designer’s return to the city, a cultural hub of rock […]

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Labyrinth/Laboratory: Selections from the Cranbrook Collection

Labyrinth/Laboratory: Selections from the Cranbrook Collection presents work by alumni and faculty of Cranbrook Academy of Art, drawn from Cranbrook Art Museum’s permanent collection of over 8,000 objects. Largely focused on work produced since the 1960s, Labyrinth/Laboratory: Selections from the Cranbrook Collection places into dialogue various aesthetic, material, and conceptual connections across time by Academy […]