by The AFC Staff on August 15, 2013
Good God we were busy yesterday. We spent the day posting images from the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection as part of “A Day for Detroit”, a co-ordinated blog effort designed to raise awareness about what could be lost were the collection to be sold. This effort was spearheaded by Modern Art Notes’ Tyler Green and was done in collaboration with approximately 20 other art blogs, who did the same on their sites, as well as some of Detroit’s professional art community. We asked artists, curators and dealers who either once lived in Detroit or live there now to name their favorite works from the DIA and to share their stories.
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by The AFC Staff on August 14, 2013
All day long, Art F City and 21 other art blogs have been posting images from the Detroit Institute of Art’s invaluable art collection, as part of an online event called “A Day for Detroit”. There are fantastic works to be found in their holdings, which, unfortunately, face the threat of being sold off to cover the city of Detroit’s debts. This would be an irreparable loss for those who’ve lived and worked in close proximity to DIA.
We’ll continue to share images and tweets into the evening, but as we look to wrap up our coverage on the blog, we turn to artist and Assistant Professor of Art at Wayne State University, Cristobal Mendoza.
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