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Exhibitions
Paul Evans

Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism

Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism

This first comprehensive survey of Paul Evans’s work, this exhibition will document Evans’s role in the midcentury American studio furniture movement, his approach to furniture as sculpture and abstract composition, and his unremitting new approaches to metal. Opening earlier this year at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and …


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Lauren Kalman

Lauren Kalman: Coveted Objects

Lauren Kalman: Coveted Objects

Coveted Objects, the first solo exhibition in Michigan by the Detroit-based artist and metalsmith Lauren Kalman, explores issues of taste and desire that inform our sensibilities towards the body and design objects. The exhibition consists of a selection of photographs and props used in staged vignettes featuring painted-gold bodies that …


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Harry Bertoia

Bent, Cast & Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia

Bent, Cast & Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia

In commemoration of the centennial of the artist’s birth, Bent, Cast & Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia is the first museum exhibition devoted to Harry Bertoia’s designs for jewelry. The former Cranbrook Academy of Art student and metalsmithing instructor has received international acclaim for his metal furniture and sculpture, but his …


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John Glick
Press Releases
Plate stoneware, John Glick

John Glick: A Legacy in Clay Opens at Cranbrook Art Museum on June 18

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., May 2, 2016 – Cranbrook Art Museum is pleased to announce the upcoming opening of our new exhibition, John Glick: A Legacy in Clay, which will highlight the illustrious career of the ceramist and 1962 graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art. The exhibition will open on June …


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Hippie Modernism
Press Releases
Drop City home architecture

Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia Opens at Cranbrook Art Museum on June 18

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., April 27, 2016 – The acclaimed exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia travels to Cranbrook Art Museum this June, bringing an examination of the intersections of art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s.


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Paintings

Amy Yoes – Hands Off, She’s Mine, 2001

Amy Yoes

Hands Off, She's Mine, 2001

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Sculpture

Barbara Cooper – Spiritus, 1990

Barbara Cooper

Spiritus, 1990

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Sculpture

Harry Bertoia – Untitled (Sound Sculpture), circa 1975

Harry Bertoia

Untitled (Sound Sculpture), circa 1975

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Metalworks
Sculpture

Harry Bertoia – Untitled (Wall Sculpture)

Harry Bertoia

Untitled (Wall Sculpture), 1958, for the Winkelman Residence, Detroit, Michigan

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Furniture

Eero Saarinen – Pedestal or Tulip Side Chair

Eero Saarinen (Designer)

Pedestal or Tulip Side Chair, designed 1955-1957; made 1977, or earlier

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