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Photographer Shirin Neshat points lens at women's roles in Iran
Iranian-American photographer Shirin Neshat produces work touching on the oppression of women and the strict segregation of the sexes imposed by Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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Chamber fest keeps artform alive with classics, new pieces
On a June evening in 1994, before an expectant crowd of music-lovers, the regal strains of Paul Dukas' 'Fanfare from La Peri' filled the sanctuary of Temple Beth-El. The first Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival was under way.
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Heroes Gala raises $700K to benefit DSO
Saturday's third-annual Heroes Gala, honoring longtime board member Barbara Van Dusen, raised more than $700,000 to benefit the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
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Cranbrook exhibit gives Michigan its due in modern design
Modernism sprang simultaneously from two centers of design ferment, Los Angeles and Detroit, but Michigan's contribution has gotten short shrift in recent decades.
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'Addams Family' musical to snap to life at Fox
If you like your macabre mixed with humor and a touch of musical theater, then 'The Addams Family' is for you. It's at Detroit's Fox Theatre this weekend.
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'50 Shades!' musical spoof finds the silly in sexy book
Whether or not you've read the bestselling erotic romance novel '50 Shades of Gray,' you might laugh your face off when the parody '50 Shades! The Musical' arrives at Detroit's Fisher Theatre this weekend.
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Pianist Jeremy Denk stays sharp at chamber festival
Not all daredevils wear star-spangled suits and jump canyons on their Harley. Some of them, like Jeremy Denk, drive Steinways.
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$500,000 DIA donation is group's largest
The Founders Junior Council announced Tuesday it is giving the Detroit Institute of Arts $500,000, the largest donation in the auxiliary's history.
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Annual Sphinx Competition kicks off 17th season
Detroit — Registration has begun for a national music competition open to young black and Latino string players.
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Tonight's Tony Awards will star cross dressing and Tom Hanks
The Tony Awards will be a real drag this year: The two top musicals battling it out have leading men dressed as women and the night's biggest celebrity will be Tom Hanks, who reminded everyone of his cross-dressing roots by teaming up in 'Lucky Guy' with Peter Scolari, his 'Bosom Buddies' co-star.
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Predicting winners of Sunday's Tony Awards
The great comedian W.C. Fields is credited with the line, 'Never work with children or animals.' He would have had trouble on Broadway this season.
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Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival unites gifted musicians
Now entering its 20th year, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival has grown to become one of the nation's premier summer celebrations of classical music, its programs acclaimed for their breadth and originality.
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$100,000 is the goal for DIA's Bal Africain benefit
Bal Africain returns to the Detroit Institute of Arts on June 15 for its 48th glittering gala with Hollywood great Danny Glover as featured guest.
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Detroit rediscovers Mary Ann Aitken in two shows
Few things are more thrilling for a curator than discovering an unknown talent. So it's no surprise that Rebecca Mazzei was exhilarated when a friend showed her work by Mary Ann Aitken that had been sitting in a basement since the 1980s.
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DIA board briefed on bankruptcy
On Monday morning, Detroit Institute of Arts officials briefed the museum's full board of directors on the possibility that the DIA's collection could be at ...
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'Prairie Home Companion' keeps variety alive
Not a single public opinion survey would have hinted at it in the mid-1970s, but it turns out that stories about Norwegian bachelor farmers and musical sets ...
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Detroit plays the muse for New York composer's 'Rouge River Transfiguration'
Missy Mazzoli, a 32-year-old New York composer, played Detroit in 2010 while touring with her rock band Victoire. Like so many outsiders who visit Michigan's ...
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Dallas exhibit reunites art that JFK saw before death
Artist Jack Zajac said learning earlier this year that his bronze sculpture was among the last works of art ever seen by President John F. Kennedy left him ...
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Pop songwriters find excitement in stage musicals
There was a time when most of the songs played on the radio came from Broadway. Now some popular hit makers like Cyndi Lauper and Sting are finding it still ...
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Detroit’s creditors could target Detroit Institute of Arts collection
A public spat over the fate of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection erupted Friday as museum officials sparred with Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr’s office ...
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Orr: DIA collection at risk if city declares bankruptcy
The city’s new emergency manager has told the Detroit Institute of Arts it may “face exposure to creditors” if the city is forced to seek bankruptcy protection, ...
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Orr spokesman: DIA failed to move quickly to protect assets
A spokesman for Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr blasted the Detroit Institute of Arts today for “burying its head in the sand” and failing to seek protections ...
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Canada's Shaw and Stratford festivals lure Detroiters with classics, contemporary works
Summer is made for festivals. And if you're up for a road trip, the Shaw and Stratford festivals in Ontario will whet your theater appetite.
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Pierce Street in Birmingham gets graffiti art, on purpose
Birmingham's posh shopping district on Pierce Street, all ripped up for construction, now sports five large pieces of aerosol art by five different Detroit ...
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Painters find emotional depth and offbeat beauty in figurative works
Anyone who takes figurative painting seriously is apt to enjoy “Holly Coulis & Aliza Nisenbaum,” a show by two Brooklyn artists at Ferndale’s Susanne Hilberry ...
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