Cranbrook Art Museum Announces New Summer Exhibition “Akea Brionne: A Dreaming Hour”

Bloomfield Hills, Mich., May 5, 2026 — Detroit artist Akea Brionne will open her first solo museum exhibition, Akea Brionne: A Dreaming Hour, at Cranbrook Art Museum on June 20. Brionne is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of lens- and fiber-based media, and is a 2023 graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art photography department. An opening celebration will […]

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Detroit Opera to present John Cage’s Apartment House 1776 at Cranbrook Art Museum, May 21–24

Cage’s immersive “musicircus,” written in observance of the 1976 U.S. bicentennial, reimagines America’s colonial foundations as a chorus of voices drifting from apartment windows DETROIT, March 30, 2026 – Detroit Opera’s 25/26 opera season will conclude with John Cage’s Apartment House 1776, an immersive operatic experience staged inside the galleries of the Cranbrook Art Museum […]

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Cranbrook Art Museum To Open “Labyrinth/Laboratory: Selections from the Cranbrook Collection”

Bloomfield Hills, Mich., April 2, 2026 — Cranbrook Art Museum presents Labyrinth/Laboratory: Selections from the Cranbrook Collection, a new ongoing exhibition of work by Cranbrook Academy of Art alumni and faculty that shows how artists across generations connect through their ideas, materials, and processes. With a focus on work produced from the 1960s to the present, Labyrinth/Laboratory features 47 works, including […]

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Cranbrook Art Museum to Open Two New Exhibitions Dedicated to Detroit Artists

How We Make the Planet Move: The Detroit Collection Part IThe debut of works by Detroit artists added to the museum’s permanent collection Subtleism: Neha Vedpathak with Agnes MartinThird exhibition in the museum’s Fresh Paint series featuring emerging artists ArtMembers Preview Party for All Fall Exhibitions: October 25, 2024Exhibitions Open from October 27, 2024 – […]

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Cranbrook Art Museum to Open “Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within”

Exhibition is the first traveling retrospective of the artist’s work in 20 years On view: October 9, 2024 – January 12, 2025 Special ArtMembers Exclusive Weekend: October 5–6 ArtMembers Preview Party for All Fall Exhibitions: October 25, 2024 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., Sept. 18, 2024 – This fall, Cranbrook Art Museum will present three new exhibitions to […]

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Cranbrook Art Museum Announces First Museum Exhibition Dedicated to Cuban Mid-Century Design

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Announcing Four New Exhibitions Opening This Fall at Cranbrook Art Museum

Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit LeRoy Foster: Solo Show Carl Toth: Reordering Fictions Ash Arder: Flesh Tones All Exhibitions Open October 28, 2023 ArtMembers Preview Party October 27, 2023 This fall, Cranbrook Art Museum will open a series of original exhibitions that examine the importance of legacy within the artistic community of Detroit by […]

Artist-Designed Miniature Golf Course at Cranbrook Art Museum Returns for a Second Season with Two New Holes

“Cranbrook on the Green” opens to the public on May 24, 2023 Bloomfield Hills, Mich., April 18, 2023 — Cranbrook Art Museum is pleased to announce that it is bringing back its artist-designed miniature golf course for the 2023 summer season by popular demand – with the addition of two new holes! Members of the Cranbrook community […]

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Cranbrook Art Museum Announces It Will Premiere New Exhibition Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other This Summer

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Cranbrook Art Museum Announces First Museum Retrospective of Detroit-based Artist Scott Hocking

Scott Hocking: Detroit Stories Opens November 5, 2022 Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Oct. 17, 2022 — This fall, Cranbrook Art Museum will host the first museum retrospective of the Detroit-based artist Scott Hocking, whose long career of work spans sculpture and installation, and photography and video. Hocking has been living and working in Detroit for more […]

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