Letter from DIA Director

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Director’s Letter

I can’t think of too many exhibitions more profound–emotionally, spiritually, technically–than Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus. The challenge of negotiating loans came to seem minor as DIA curatorial and interpretive staff sorted through the various possible approaches to a complicated story involving [...]

Mosaic Youth Theatre rings in the season with Woodward Wonderland

[ December 11, 2009 8:00 pm to December 13, 2009 4:00 pm. ] Woodward Wonderland: A Detroit Holiday Celebration
Thurs, Dec. 11 & Fri, Dec. 12 – 8:00 pm; Sat, Dec. 13, 2009, 4:00 pm

Detroit Film Theatre at the DIA, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit
Tickets: $10.00-20.00

“… a nostalgic theatrical journey to magical Motor City destinations.” Michigan Chronicle

Metro Detroit’s newest holiday tradition returns to the Detroit Institute of Arts! Performed by Mosaic’s [...]

PechaKucha Night Detroit Volume 6

[ November 28, 2009; 6:30 pm; ] Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 6:30PM
Detroit Film Theatre

You are invited to take part in an intimate evening with a select few of Metropolitan Detroit’s finest creative professionals.

Detroit’s sixth volume of the international phenomena, Pechkucha Night is coming to the Detroit Institute of Arts Film Theatre on Tuesday November 24th.

Doors open at 6:30 pm. Presentations begin [...]

Detroit Passport to the Arts Launch Party at Centaur

[ August 20, 2009; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Join us for the DP2A Launch Party on Thursday, August 20 at Centaur Bar in Detroit.

Come check out the latest information on our newest program: DP2A!  Appetizers are on us, and will include a cheese spread, pizzas, thai chicken & red pepper canapes.

From 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Centaur will donate $1 per alcoholic drink sold back to DP2A.

Admission to [...]

Funk Karaoke Contest at the DFT

[ August 8, 2009; 8:30 pm; ] In honor of their current screening of Soul Power, the documentary which covers the three-day music festival featuring R&B’s greatest performers in Zaire which took place during the infamous 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, the “Rumble in the Junlge,” the DFT is presenting a Funk Karaoke Contest between screenings this Saturday. [...]

Soul Power at the DFT

[ July 31, 2009 12:00 am to August 9, 2009 12:00 am. ] The now-legendary boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman that took place in Zaire in 1974 (aka the “Rumble in the Jungle”) actually turned out to be two spectacles in one. Complementing the fight was a three-day music festival featuring some of the greatest rhythm and blues talents of all time: James Brown and [...]

Detroit Passport to the Arts

Prominent metro Detroit arts organizations are collaborating to introduce a new audience development program entitled “Detroit Passport to the Arts” (“DP2A”). For only $89, DP2A will offer a cultural “Passport” that entitles the holder to six varied performances produced by seven different arts organizations over the course of the 2009-10 season. A limited number of [...]

Film Review: Jerichow

Jerichow is a modernized, Teutonic film noir.
Sort of.
Let’s try this again.
Jerichow is an intellectualized exploration of greed and desperation.
Well, yes, it’s definitely that, too.
One more time.
Jerichow is full of surprises.
That pretty much nails it.
While it would be pretty easy, and also accurate enough, to sum up Jerichow as a loose interpretation of James M. Cain’s [...]

Jerichow at the DFT

[ July 24, 2009 12:00 am to August 2, 2009 12:00 am. ]
“A taut, brilliantly acted thriller.”
-Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
One of literature’s supremely steamy and enticingly lurid portraits of desire, writer James M. Cain’s classic tale The Postman Always Rings Twice has been adapted for the movies by filmmakers from America to Italy to China, with each version putting its own unique spin on the [...]

Film Review: Tulpan

I know that it is written somewhere in the top-secret handbook of film critics that you must give rave reviews to all foreign films no matter what, especially when that foreign film deals with a specific culture or practice that is scarcely touched upon (such as: goat herders inhabiting the steppes of Kazakhstan), filling some [...]