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Cranbrook Art Museum’s Landmark Exhibition Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality to Be Accompanied by a Major Performance and Public Art Series Set Throughout Detroit This Summer

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Exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum will feature works by more than 60 artists produced during periods of economic and social upheaval in Cuba, Greece, Italy, South Korea, and Detroit, USA Public art and performance series expands exhibition themes to site-specific locations throughout Metro Detroit Scott Hocking, Bone Black, installation proposal sketch, 2019. © Scott Hocking 2019. […]


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Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Degree Exhibition Opens at Cranbrook Art Museum on April 13 

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Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Degree Exhibition Opens at Cranbrook Art Museum on April 13 Opening Reception on Saturday, April 13, 6–9pm OPEN(STUDIOS) Returns on Sunday, April 28 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., March 20, 2019 –The 2019 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art opens to the public on April 13 and will showcase work from more than […]


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Cranbrook Art Museum to Open a New Daniel Arsham Exhibition on March 1

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Co-founder of Snarkitecture Also Installing “The Beach Detroit” Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, February 20, 2019—On March 1, Cranbrook Art Museum will open the new exhibition Daniel Arsham, The Source: A Catalog of Late-20th-Century American Relics, a fictional archaeology of the future through the creation of iconic objects and products of late-twentieth-century American life. The exhibition will open […]


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CRANBROOK ART MUSEUM ANNOUNCES SUMMER EXHIBITION, LANDLORD COLORS: ON ART, ECONOMY, AND MATERIALITY

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On View from June 21 through October 6, 2019 Exhibition will feature works by more than 60 artists produced during periods of economic and social upheaval in Cuba, Greece, Italy, South Korea, and Detroit  Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, January 28, 2018—In the summer of 2019, Cranbrook Art Museum will present Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and […]


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Cranbrook Art Museum Fall Exhibitions Examine Alumni and Artists-in-Residence of Cranbrook Academy of Art

Annabeth RosenBinion/SaarinenDanielle DeanPress Releases

Exhibitions opening November 17 include: Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped Binion/Saarinen: A McArthur Binion Project Danielle Dean: A Portrait of True Red Bloomfield Hills, Mich., August 16, 2018— This November, Cranbrook Art Museum will open three exhibitions that showcase the incredible range of alumni and Artists-in-Residence that have emerged from Cranbrook Academy of Art […]


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Chris Scoates Announces Departure from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum

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  Chris Scoates Announces Departure from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., March 29, 2018 — Cranbrook Educational Community announced today that Chris Scoates has resigned as Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum. Scoates will stay at the Academy through the end of the academic year, after which […]


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“Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986” and “Shepard Fairey: Salad Days 1989-1999” Open at Cranbrook Art Museum in June

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Exhibitions Run from June 16 through October 7, 2018 Opening Celebration: June 15, 2018 Bloomfield Hills, Mich., March 5, 2018—This summer, Cranbrook Art Museum will organize the largest exhibition of its kind exploring the unique visual language of the punk and post-punk movements from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Too Fast to Live, Too Young […]


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Cranbrook Art Museum Presents True to Form: Selections from the Permanent Collection

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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., Feb. 28, 2018 – Cranbrook Art Museum will open the new exhibition True to Form: Selections from the Permanent Collection on March 10, 2018. Drawing from the Museum’s holdings of more than 6,000 objects of art, design, and craft, True to Form celebrates Museum favorites alongside newly-acquired works debuting for the first […]


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Cranbrook Art Museum Announces Fall Exhibition Series

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Exhibitions opening November 18 include: Ryan McGinness: Studio Views and Collection Views Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979-1980 Keith Haring: The End of the Line Maya Stovall: Liquor Store Theatre Performance Films Bloomfield Hills, Mich., July 25, 2017 — This fall, Cranbrook Art Museum will open a series of exhibitions by artists who all […]


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Cranbrook Art Museum Presents Cranbrook: A New Domestic Landscape

Cranbrook: A New Domestic LandscapePress Releases

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., May 8, 2017 – On May 12, Cranbrook Art Museum will open a new exhibition, Cranbrook: A New Domestic Landscape, which features contemporary furniture and furnishings by recent alumni and Artists-in-Residence of Cranbrook Academy of Art. The work challenges conventions of use, explores new materials and techniques, and blurs the boundaries between art, craft, and design. The exhibition will run from May 12, 2017 through January 14, 2018.


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