Laura Mott Named Chief Curator of Cranbrook Art Museum


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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., April 28, 2022 – Cranbrook Art Museum has announced that Laura Mott has been promoted to the position of Chief Curator of Cranbrook Art Museum. She previously held the position of Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Design at the museum.An accomplished curator and lecturer, Mott joined Cranbrook in 2013 and has curated and co-curated more than 20 projects for the museum, including Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, an exhibition and publication for which she was named a Warhol Curatorial Fellow, Nick Cave: Here Hear, Maya Stovall: Liquor Store Theater, Allie McGhee: Banana Moon Horn, Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock, and upcoming exhibitions with artists Tyrrell Winston and Sonya Clark. This June, the museum will premiere Tunde Olaniran: Made a Universe, a multi-year project led by Mott that includes a short film, large installation and performance by the Flint-based musician and performer."Laura Mott ...

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Whatever Gets You Through the Night: Selections from the Mott-Warsh Collection


Whatever Gets You Through the Night: Selections from the Mott-Warsh Collection

Flint-based artist Tunde Olaniran and Cranbrook Art Museum have partnered with MW Gallery to present a selection of works from the preeminent Mott-Warsh Collection, which focuses on art by artists of the African diaspora and those who reflect on it. This exhibition is an extension of a similarly titled show on view through August 20, 2022 at MW Gallery in downtown Flint.  This selection of artwork shares themes with Tunde Olaniran’s newly-commissioned film and installation Made A Universe, which is concurrently on view at the museum. The exhibition investigates how societal challenges, such as systemic disenfranchisement, racism, xenophobia, and isolation, can become pressing personal struggles about our health, wellness, economic stability, and more. Amid these personal and shared trials, myriad questions arise: How do we cope? Where do we go to seek relief? Who or what makes us feel better? How do we heal?At Cranbrook Art Museum, the exhibition includes work by ...

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Tyrrell Winston got famous for using lost basketballs as art. Now, he’s leaving home to find what’s next. | USA Today


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What is home? New ‘Homebody’ exhibit at Cranbrook Art Museum explores | Detroit News


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A Look at Cranbrook Art Museum’s Fall 2021 Exhibits | HOUR Detroit


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From Colombia to Cranbrook, artist Olga de Amaral’s work blurs boundaries | The Detroit News


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Cranbrook Art Museum Announces Four New Fall Exhibitions


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The First Major Retrospectives of Legendary Fiber Artist Olga de Amaral and Legendary Detroit Artist Allie McGhee A Look at Michigan’s Modern Movement and the Building of CranbrookOlga de Amaral: To Weave a RockAllie McGhee: Banana Moon HornOctober 30, 2021 – February 13, 2022James Haefner: Michigan ModernOctober 6, 2021 – January 9, 2022Building Cranbrook: Saarinen in MichiganOctober 9, 2021 – January 9, 2022Bloomfield Hills, Mich., October 6, 2021 — This month, Cranbrook Art Museum announces the opening of four new fall exhibitions that will showcase a legendary Academy graduate, a Detroit icon, the photography of Michigan’s midcentury modern movement, and the building of Cranbrook.“This season’s exhibitions underscore the dual mission of Cranbrook Art Museum, one tied to the collecting and interpreting the work of influential alumni of Cranbrook Academy of Art and the achievements of Detroit-based artists. Olga de Amaral and Allie McGhee are preeminent examples of this mission," said Andrew ...

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Michigan Marvels: Cranbrook | Detroit News


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Cranbrook Art Museum Announces Two New Fall Exhibitions


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Headspace: Jim Dine's Glyptotek and The Detroit Printing Co-op: The Politics and the Joy of Printing Open This Month Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Sept. 15, 2020 — Cranbrook Art Museum opens two new exhibitions this month that will join the exhibition Shapeshifters: Transformations in Contemporary Art currently on display. The three exhibitions occupy the upper and lower galleries of the museum. The museum is now open late every Thursday until 8pm, with FREE admission all day. All visitors must preregister at cranbrookartmuseum.org."Headspace" Exhibition View. PD Rearick, photographer.Headspace: Jim Dine’s Glyptotek Opened September 9, 2020 Inspired by a 1984 trip to Glyptothek, Munich’s museum dedicated to antique Greek and Roman sculpture, artist Jim Dine set out to create a book of prints inspired by the collection. He produced forty drawings uniquely designed to function as transparencies in the production of héliogravure prints, a printmaking process used to reproduce the earliest photographs. Dine’s prints exist both as individual works and as a collection, bound together in the oversized ...

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Cranbrook Art Museum’s ‘Shapeshifters’ explores transitions | Detroit News


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