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Good morning. ☁️ Two museum leaders explain how Detroit was able to save its museum, activists occupied the main entrance to MoMA in support of Gaza and Sheikh Jarrah, and a new show spotlights LGBTQ+ artists of the Asian diaspora.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

How a Property Tax Helped Transform the Detroit Institute of Arts

Our millage funding model, based upon responsiveness and accountability, is a successful paradigm that has sustained the DIA and benefitted our region.

Salvador Salort-Pons and Eugene Gargaro

Latest News

"Le Stryge," a grotesque in Notre Dame Cathedral that was damaged in the fire, will be fully restored thanks to a new fundraiser (image via Wikimedia Commons)

Friday’s “Strike MoMA” protest, held in solidarity with Palestinian civilians and other oppressed people around the world, drew hundreds of demonstrators.
Angela Davis, Fred Moten, and 250+ artists have signed an open letter condemning MoMA’s ties to violence against Palestinians.
You can now help rebuild Notre Dame by sponsoring the restoration of a specific artifact damaged in the 2018 fire.

Latest in Art

In Vivid Pastels, Adrian Armstrong Explores the Complexity of Blackness

Armstrong’s layered portraits prompt a consideration of race that is not tethered to skin shades.

Lauren Lluveras

In This Show, “Queerness Becomes Something You Cannot Ignore”

WOMEN我們: From Her to Here features Asian diasporic LGBTQ+ artists from New York, the Bay Area, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Emily Wilson

Laura Owens Teams Up with Cleveland Teens for a Playful Show on Time Travel

Though unequivocally a monographic show, Rerun is clearly the product of many (fresh and youthful) voices, much to its benefit.

Andrea Gyorody

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Marguerita Mergentime "Once in a While" Cloth Napkins

Based on a pattern by American textile designer Marguerita Mergentime, these napkins are formatted so that four different graphic effects can be achieved depending on how they’re folded.

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