Unless otherwise noted all events and programs will take place in deSalle Auditorium on the lower level of Cranbrook Art Museum.
For more information, please call 248-645-3361.
Andy Warhol: Grand Slam
Paintings, Photographs, Prints and Films
Andy Warhol, arguably the most important artist of the second half of the twentieth century, captivated the world with his irreverent perspective on modern life and celebrity. Cranbrook Art Museum presents an unmatched exhibition of more than 200 signature examples of the artist's work, highlighting Warhol's practice in four artistic media - painting, photography, print and film - and spanning the breadth of the artist's career from the 1960s through the 1980s. October 19 January 11, 2009
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports February 1 - March 29, 2009 Upper Main, Center and South Galleries
Mark Newport: Superheroes In Action
February 1 - March 29, 2009 North Gallery
2009 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art
April 19 - May 8, 2009 All Galleries
Jane Hammond: Paper Work The exhibition features Hammonds unique works on paper made from a myriad of techniques and materials, along with prints and books. All of the objects rely on the artists vocabulary of 276 borrowed images which she has manipulated endlessly to produce visually rich and mentally stimulating compositions that provoke thought, feeling, and new meaning about interaction and communication. Zany and mysterious, the works are flat and three-dimensional, large and small, painted and drawn, photographed, and printed. October 1, 2008 - January 11, 2009
Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Van Gogh, Dali, Picasso, Monet, Cézanne and more! From the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s these artists profoundly changed the course of European art history and blazed a new path for modern art across the western world. From the dynamic brushstrokes of Van Gogh to the hazy delicacy of Monet, from Picassos inventiveness to Dalis demented dreamscapes, these are works youll never forget! October 12, 2008 - January 18, 2009
In the Company of Artists: Photographs from the DIA Collection Through the photographs of André Kertész, Man Ray, Yousuf Karsh, Arnold Newman and Robert Mapplethorpe discover the lives of famous creative individuals. In the Company of Artists brings together portraits of artists, their families, friends, and surroundings along with writers and musicians and other individuals from artistic and bohemian circles from the late 1890s to present day. November 19, 2008 - February 15, 2009
Institute for the Humanities 202 S. Thayer Street, Suite 111
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608 USA
Brown Bag Lecture: Talk Show Democracy
Chris Berry: "Tell It Like It Is: Thinking about Public Spaceand the Media in China" 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 January 20, 2009 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Warm up to Some RED HOT ART
A special group show by our gallery members January 7-31, 2009 Opening Reception: Friday, January 9 from 6pm - 9pm
The Body Eclectic Writers inspired by one of the artworks hanging in the gallery will each read their poems at this wonderful event. February 4- 27, 2009 Opening Reception: Friday, February 6 from 6pm - 9pm Poetry at the Gallery: Friday, February 27 at 7pm
Sisters of the Brush: 9 Women Painters March 4- 28, 2009 Opening Reception: Friday, March 6 from 6pm -9pm
Exposures: Photography '09
Writers inspired by one of the artworks hanging in the gallery will each read their poems at this wonderful event. April 1 - 24, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, April 3 from 6pm - 9pm
Poetry at the Gallery: Friday, April 24 at 7pm
Rene Lichtman Paintings May 6 - 30, 2009 Opening Reception: Friday, May 8 from 6pm - 9pm
Laura Whitesides Host Paintings and Monotypes June 3 - 27, 2009 Opening Reception: Friday, June 5 from 6pm - 9pm
Summer Invitational '09 July 1- 31, 2009 Opening Reception: Friday, July 10 from 6pm - 9pm
George Booth Photographs August 5 - 29, 2009 Opening Reception: Friday, August 7 from 6pm - 9pm
Jae Won Lee: Internal Distance(s) Four bodies of work exploring scale and the aura of multiplicity by the Michigan ceramic and installation artist.
Curator: Dick Goody
Dates: Jan. 10-Feb. 22, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan. 10, 6-8 p.m. Artist's Talk: To be announced
Exhibition catalogue available
Contemporary Flânerie: Reconfiguring Cities
This exhibition explores globalization and new media through the reconfiguration and recontextualization of urban experiences.
Curator: Vagner M. Whitehead
Dates: March 7-April 12, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 7, 6-8 p.m.
Curator's Discussion: To be announced
Artist's Talk: To be announced
Senior Thesis In Studio Art II
Dates: April 17-May 17, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, April 17, 5-7 p.m.
Student Artists Presentations: Friday, April 17, (time TBA)
Snowden will present a lecture on her work at the public opening reception on Saturday, November 15, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. in the Gallery located at 1274 Library Street, Detroit.
Flora Urbana: New Paintings demonstrates the artist's signature use of color and texture in brilliant, intense brush strokes. A brush wielded as though an épée, maneuvering rhythmically on canvas in a glide, a flick, extending, advancing, lunging deftly, on point, scoring, turning, and then touché! (voila!, actually) - a winning collection of vibrant floras. And with mixed metaphor, we note that the work of this artist, who was born and raised in Motown, seems at times like the music for which our city is known when in "visual voice," petals pop from the canvas in rhythmic beat.
