October 18, 2016 to March 15, 2017 - Approximately 35 examples from this crucial body of early work will be featured in the exhibition, most of which have not been exhibited on the east coast for four decades. Also included will be three of the artist's rarely seen works in oil on canvas, which help to demonstrate how Voulkos developed his ideas concurrently in painting, sculpture and pottery.

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October 18, 2016 to March 15, 2017 - In this exhibition, Grossen has mined the Museum's permanent collection and brought her own rope sculptures together with a selection of work from MAD's unusual collection of baskets, as well as other work in fiber, wood, and metal. Privileging elemental methods of construction as a language of abstraction, Grossen’s selections highlight an approa...

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October 19 - December 31, 2016 - This is an exhibition of the innovative minds and personalities that defined a century as seen through the eyes of one of its own; Arnold Newman. Recognized as the ‘Father of Environmental Portraiture,’ Newman’s work is collected and exhibited in major museums and collections around the world. With over 60 portraits, including Pablo Pica...

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October 21, 2016 - April 23, 2017 - This exhibition includes dramatic architectural studies, street scenes, graffiti and otherworldly vignettes as well as some of Detroit’s famous night haunts, like the premier jazz club Baker’s Keyboard Lounge, the legendary Grande Ballroom and punk and garage rock dens such as Bookie’s Club and the Gold Dollar. While most of the photographers a...

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October 21, 2016 - January 22, 2017 - The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from UMMA’s African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius.  Traces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s Africa...

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October 21, 2016–March 5, 2017 - The most comprehensive exhibition of Buchanan’s work to date, Beverly Buchanan Ruins and Rituals presents approximately 200 objects, including sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, and notebooks of the artist’s writing as well as documentation of performances. A new video installation of her existing earthworks is presented for the first time...

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October 22, 2016 - February 5, 2017 - The exhibition will focus on Engman's more intimately sized sculpture and jewelry, accompanied by the existing book. He is best known locally for his large public sculpture, especially works installed in Philadelphia such as Triune, located opposite City Hall.

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October 22, 2016  - January 29, 2017 -  This historic and long-overdue monographic exhibition celebrates Rosalyn Drexler’s multidisciplinary artistic practice and acknowledges her important contribution to Pop art. In this retrospective survey, Drexler’s early sculptures, paintings, and collages are presented alongside examples from her award-winning plays and novels. These ...

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October 22 - December 30, 2016 - The exhibition features the amazing work of pop-up book creators Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart. The exhibition features 80 original works from more than 16 of their books.

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October 22, 2016 - January 15, 2017 - The 41 photographs in this exhibition can be viewed as documentation, as art, and as promotion. The photographers presented America’s natural splendor in a way that was accepted as scientific and factual, but they also constructed a vision of the West as a land ripe for development, exploitation, tourism and, in some cases, preservation. Severa...

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