Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Detroit.

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is located in Wayne County, Michigan
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Location within Wayne County, Michigan
Established2006 (2006)
LocationMidtown, Detroit, Michigan, US
Coordinates42.3527°N 83.0607°W / 42.3527; -83.0607
TypeContemporary art museum
Websitemocadetroit.org

MOCAD is housed in a 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m2) building, a converted former auto dealership designed by Albert Kahn. The architecture of the building was left intentionally raw and unfinished.[1]

History

The museum was founded by Julia Reyes Taubman.[2][3]

Exhibitions

Its first exhibition, Meditations in an Emergency, started on October 28, 2006. It was curated by Klaus Kertess, and included work by Tabaimo, Kara Walker, Nari Ward, and others. The second exhibition which ran from February to April 2007 was "Shrinking Cities" a largely conceptual exhibition dealing with population loss and shifting urban concentrations all over the world, with Detroit being a main focus of the exhibition. Their third exhibition, which ran until July 2007 was titled "Stuff: The International Collection of Burt Aaron." It was an exhibit of the personal collection of renowned Michigan collector Burt Aaron.

In 2013, the museum exhibited Mike Kelley's "Mobile Homestead".[4][5]

Programming history

MOCAD has hosted musical, literary and artistic events. Artists and musicians such as Roy Ayers, Amp Fiddler, Dan Deacon's Round Robin, Michael Yonkers, Marlon Magas, Pink Reason, and Roscoe Mitchell; writers like John Giorno and Bill Berkson; and performance artists such as Jody Oberfelder, Will Power and Pat Oleszko have been featured at MOCAD.

References
  1. Ouroussoff, Nicolai (30 November 2006). "Seeing the Seediness, and Celebrating It". New York Times. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  2. Edelson, Sharon (29 January 2018). "Julia Reyes Taubman, Author and Art Booster, Dead at 50". WWD.
  3. Siacon, Aleanna (January 29, 2018). "MOCAD co-founder Julia Reyes Taubman, 50, dies after cancer battle". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  4. Miller, M. H. (2017-03-08). "Mike Kelley's Underground Afterlife". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  5. Mondry, Aaron (2019-10-11). "MOCAD launches $15M renovation campaign". Curbed Detroit. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
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