Tag: Detroit

  • Mirrors, Iron, and Stone Conjure Ancestral Healing in Olayami Dabls' Detroit Museum

    Olayami Dabls is careful to call attention to the distinction between material culture and fine art. After working as an artist and curator for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in the 1970s, Dabls shifted directions and founded the MBAD African Bead Museum in 1994 to reintroduce African culture and healing into read more

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    Mirrors, Iron, and Stone Conjure Ancestral Healing in Olayami Dabls' Detroit Museum

  • The Detroit Museum of Arts Confronts Art History While Shaping Its Future 

    “We have not yet begun to utilize the museum as an instrument of cultural education.” Those words, from Alain Locke’s 1925 essay “The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts,” carry visitors through a set of newly installed permanent collection galleries at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). When he penned that text a century ago, Locke, read more

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