The Cranbrook Salon

The Cranbrook Salon is the second installment of an ongoing series that explores Cranbrook’s collections through the history of exhibition design. This display draws its inspiration from the salon-style hanging technique, which originated in late seventeenth-century Paris at the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In order to accommodate the great quantity of works […]

Cranbrook celebrates city, art and feminism with new series | C & G Newspapers

Last year, the Cranbrook Art Museum welcomed home a member of its family for a widely acclaimed photography and performance art event.“Nick Cave: Here Hear” connected Cranbrook to the city of Detroit like never before, and now there’s no going back. The museum is in the midst of yet another exhibition, called “The Cranbrook Salon,” which explores the history of salon-style art displays, and to complement that, they’ve arranged a series of salon events with a decidedly Detroit — and even feminist — flare.

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“The Cranbrook Salon” Seeds Lively Discussion Among Detroit’s Thinkers | Knight Blog

Knight Blog, the blog of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, features writer Rosie Sharp's visit to "The Cranbrook Salon." Sharp visited the Museum to examine the exhibition and our newly-formed "Detroit Bluestockings Crew," a collective of local women who will host events around Detroit.

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Cranbrook Art Museum Announces New Exhibition Series

Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Oct. 12, 2015- Cranbrook Art Museum announces its fall season of exhibitions today, which continue the Museum’s tradition of bringing innovative and interactive contemporary art to the metro Detroit area. Opening on November 21 (with a special ArtMembers’ Opening Reception on November 20) are the exhibitions Lou Reed, Metal Machine Trio: The Creation of the Universe; Andy Warhol: Empire; Him, a project by Liz Cohen; and The Cranbrook Salon. Then in December, the Museum will debut Simple Forms, Stunning Glazes: The Gerald W. McNeely Pewabic Pottery Collection.

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