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City of Dearborn: Welcome Home Dearborn Launches MySpace Page (Market Wire - Lifestyle and Leisure)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:05:00 GMT

DEARBORN, MI (MARKET WIRE) What do the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Symphony and the City's Welcome Home Dearborn marketing campaign all have in common? Each boasts a MySpace page to draw in younger audiences. The campaign's page can be found online at www.myspace.com/welcomehomedearborn.

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NAMES AND FACES: Jarreau to be DIA guest of honor (Detroit Free Press)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:12:00 GMT

Star power! The Detroit Institute of Arts' auxiliary group, Friends of African and African American Art, welcomes jazz great Al Jarreau to the newly renovated DIA as its honored guest for the 45th annual Bal Africain Aug. 2.

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Teen Accurately Describes Robert Mapplethorpe Exhibit As 'Gay' (The Onion)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:02:56 GMT

DETROIT—Despite having viewed only a single Robert Mapplethorpe photograph of a pink orchid during a class trip to the Detroit Institute of...

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IABC/Detroit Recognizes Outstanding Communicators During The 2008 Renaissance Awards Presented by General Motors (PR News Wire )

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:20:00 GMT

DETROIT, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Detroit Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC/Detroit) today announced the winners of the 27th annual Renaissance Awards, presented by General Motors. The Renaissance Awards program continues a 27-year tradition of recognizing excellence in communication in all functional areas including strategic communication management, corporate...

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CAROL CAIN: Film fests aim to draw movies, money (Detroit Free Press)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:49:00 GMT

After toiling at our state capital for years and working in courtrooms across southeast Michigan representing his clients, John Kelly is reaching for the stars -- the kind you find in Hollywood.Kelly, retired legislator and practicing attorney, is the force behind the Detroit Windsor International Film Festival, which has, in its first year, attracted some films from blue chip Hollywood types.He...

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NAMES AND FACES: Author to pay tribute to Ballard (Detroit Free Press)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:03:00 GMT

Peter Benjaminson, the former Free Press reporter who wrote "The Lost Supreme" (Lawrence Hill Books, $24.95), the story of ousted original Supreme Florence Ballard, will be in Detroit later this month to meet with Ballard's daughter Michelle Chapman and stir up book sales. The book was excerpted in the Free Press in April.

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1920s Detroit newsreels from the Detroit News online (Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Ar)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:21:14 GMT

via the Detroit Area Libraries Network: From the WSULS News Blog: “Because of a six month extension to an Institute of Library and Museum Services grant, the Wayne State University Library System and the Walter P. Reuther Library just finished...

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LAURA ON KRISTEN... (Metro Times Music Blahg)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:48:21 GMT

The Detroit Institute of Arts “Friday Night Live!” series brought none other than Kristen Hersh to town this past Friday for a stellar (and FREE) performance. Hersh has influenced countess other artists through her work with her band Throwing Muses and her high caliber solo offerings.

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NATIONAL WOMEN'S ART EXHIBITION - August 1, 2008 (Art Deadlines List)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:32:00 GMT

From Our Perspective, is accepting digital entries. This juried exhibit will feature women artists and will include two- and three-dimensional works of art. The Juror, Susan Goethel Cambell, lives and works in Detroit, Mi. and has work in many public and private collections, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, The New York Public Library, The Detroit Institute...

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World Premiere of Unbeatable Harold to Open Detroit Windsor International Film Festival at the Detroit Institute of Arts (PR News Wire )

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:20:00 GMT

DETROIT, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The world premiere of Unbeatable Harold, starring Michigan native Gordon Michaels, Golden Globe Winner Dylan McDermott and veteran actor Henry Winkler, will launch the inaugural Detroit Windsor International Film Festival (DWIFF) on June 26th at 7:30 pm. The premiere, hosted by Birmingham, Michigan-based J. Lauri Filmworks, will be held at the Detroit Institute of Arts....

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Calder Sculpture Donated to Detroit Institute of Arts by AT&T (Art Knowledge News)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:41:53 GMT

DETROIT, MI - “Young Woman and Her Suitors,” a sculpture by renowned sculptor Alexander Calder that stands 35 feet high and weighs 17 tons, is set to see the light of day for the first time in two years. The sculpture, donated to the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) by AT&T last October, formerly anchored the exterior plaza of the AT&T building at Cass and Michigan avenues...

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LOCAL SCENES: MOVIE NEWS AND NOTES: DFT to show finalists in student film event (Detroit Free Press)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:12:00 GMT

... in the 40th annual Michigan Student Film & Video Festival screen Saturday and Sunday at the Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts. State students from kindergarten through high school submitted 261 entries. Films range from 30-second public service announcements to 20-minute shorts.The DIA has long been home to the fest, but this is the first time the...

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DIA Installations Win MUSE Award (New at Pentagram)

Wed, 28 May 2008 14:46:21 GMT

The suite of interactive interpretive installations Lisa Strausfeld developed for the Detroit Institute of Arts has received a Bronze Medal in the 2008 MUSE Awards. The 19th annual competition, sponsored by the American Association of Museums, recognizes outstanding achievement in...

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New Work: Detroit Institute of Arts (New at Pentagram)

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:20:53 GMT

The suite of interactive interpretive installations created by Pentagram for the Detroit Institute of Arts. Founded in 1885, the Detroit Institute of Arts recently underwent an extensive six year, $158 million renovation that sought, among other things, to rethink...

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Michelangelo sketches of Sistine Chapel to be displayed in Italy (News for Medievalists)

Sun, 11 May 2008 19:49:00 GMT

... to Michelangelo - one certainly authentic - kept at the British Museum in London and the Detroit Institute of Arts," said Heinrich Pfeiffer, professor of Christian Art History at the Gregorian University and the man who found the drawing last year, at the presentation of the work on Wednesday. However, Pfeiffer admitted that the number of sketches attributed to Michelangelo...

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STEPHEN HENDERSON PEOPLE & POLITICS: Detroit's image takes a real-world turn for the worse (Detroit Free Press)

Sun, 11 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Buried in news last week of an FBI raid on the Office of Special Counsel in Washington was -- wait for it -- an insult to Detroit.

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LOCAL SCENES: MOVIE NEWS AND NOTES: DFT revives summer series (Detroit Free Press)

Thu, 08 May 2008 04:13:00 GMT

When the Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts scheduled a film program last summer, it was partly to keep people coming to the museum, whose regular collection was under renovation for much of last year.

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News Roundup: 5/5/2008 (The Allmusic Blog)

Mon, 05 May 2008 23:00:43 GMT

... throat . [NME.com] Adult. will premiere their 40-minute silent horror movie Decampment at the Detroit Institute of Arts this Friday with showings of the film and a live performance. [MySpace.com] Lil Wayne will join Forest Whitaker in the cast of The Patriot , a film based on the true story of five New Orleans high school basketball teams who come together after the devastation...

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SUSAN AGER: Perspective higher from lower perch (Detroit Free Press)

Sat, 03 May 2008 20:23:00 GMT

Because my left foot is broken, and crutches are no way to get around a big space, I asked for a wheelchair at the Detroit Institute of Arts last weekend and thereby gave myself the best museum experience of my life. I think it had something to do with moving more slowly and deliberately, and seeing everything from a new perspective.

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Adult.- Decampment (Missingtoof)

Thu, 01 May 2008 04:31:23 GMT

With the go ahead from Adult.’s Adam Lee Miller to post this, here is the latest news on ‘Detroit's undying isolationists', taken from their website… PART I Adult. will be premiering their new silent-experimental-short-horror film DECAMPMENT May 9, 2008 at 7:00pm and 8:30pm at the Detroit Institute of Arts accompanied by their own peculiar electronic horror music [...]

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