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	Artcom Museums Tour: Detroit Institute of Arts, The, Detroit MI
		The Detroit Institute of Arts, as the preeminent art museum in Michigan, exists to serve a wide variety of audiences as we celebrate the diversity and richness of arts and culture from all times and places throughout the world.
		The Detroit Institute of Arts, with more than one billion dollars in art and facilities, is the fifth largest fine arts museum in the country, as well as the largest municipally owned museum in the country.
		The Detroit Institute of Arts possesses an encyclopedic collection, with a multi-cultural, multi-national scope that surveys creative endeavors from prehistory through the 20 th century.
	www.artcom.com /Museums/newones/48202-40.htm (481 words)

	Detroit Institute of Arts : Permanent Collection - Ancient Art - Egypt
		Egyptian art was highly symbolic and a painting or sculpture was not meant to be a record of a momentary impression.
		Much of what we know about art and life in ancient Egypt has been preserved in the tombs that were prepared for the protection of the dead.
		The Egyptians believed that the next life had to be provided for in every detail and, as a result, tombs were decorated with depictions of the deceased at his funerary meal, activities of the estate and countryside, and the abundant offerings necessary to sustain the spirit.
	www.dia.org /collections/ancient/egypt/egypt.html (881 words)

	Welcome to Detroit Martial Arts Institute
		A Martial Art can be defined as a system of techniques - physical and mental exercises developed as a successful means for self-defense, both armed and unarmed.
		Additionally, there is a difference between martial art and martial sport; the sport application of a combat system is not a martial art.
		Today, the martial arts are practiced for health and fitness, sport, law enforcement, spiritual benefits as well as for self-defense.
	www.detroit-martialarts.com (292 words)

	Official Ticketmaster site. Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI tickets . Directions, seating chart, events. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Detroit Institute of Arts is located in the Cultural Center of Detroit on the Campus of Wayne State University.
		The DIA is wheelchair and stroller accessible at the Farnsworth St. entrance on the south side.
		Organized by The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this major exhibition celebrates the artists commitment to and love of portraiture and features 70 paintings and drawings that are being brought together from an array of public and private international collections.
	www.ticketmaster.com /venue/65579 (1017 words)

	Detroit Institute of Arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The DIA is located in Detroit's Cultural Center, about two miles (3 km) north of the downtown area, near Wayne State University.
		The collection of American Art at the DIA is one of the most impressive, and officials at the DIA have ranked the American paintings collection third among museums in the United States.
		Later support for the museum came from Detroit philanthropists such as Charles Lang Freer, and the auto barons: art and funds were donated by the Dodges, the Firestones and the Fords, especially Edsel Ford and his wife Eleanor, and subsequently their children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Detroit_Institute_of_Arts (1145 words)

	Detroit Public TV \| Highlights & Specials. In the Frame
		In the Frame: Exploring the DIA is produced in cooperation with the Detroit Institute of Arts and is a weekly 30-minute program that strives to make the DIA accessible and rewarding to all Detroit Public Television viewers.
		In this episode we'll reveal the story behind their creation and what they mean to the museum and city in terms of their historical importance and as a symbol of the industrial age.
		The GM center was established in 2000 as one of the first curatorial departments within a major art museum dedicated solely to African American art.
	www.detroitpublictv.org /watch/intheframe.shtml (512 words)

	Detroit Institute of Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Located in the heart of Detroit's Cultural Center, the Detroit Institute of Arts is recognized as one of the country's premier art museums.
		Founded in 1885, the DIA is home to art across all cultures and eras including European painting, sculpture and decorative arts; Islamic, Middle Eastern and Asian; African and Egyptian; ancient Greek and Roman; Oceanic and Indigenous American; African American; graphic arts; film and video; and contemporary art, encompassing some 60,000 works.
		The Detroit Institute of Arts is located at 5200 Woodward Avenue in Detroit.
	www.tfaoi.com /newsm1/n1m374.htm (211 words)

	Detroit Institute of Arts given art - Boston.com
		DETROIT --The estate of Henry Ford's only granddaughter has given $15 million worth of art -- including works by Picasso, Matisse and Renoir -- to the Detroit Institute of Arts.
		Besides making art donations and offering major support for fund-raising campaigns, she served on the city's Arts Commission and the museum's board of directors.
		Ford's legacy will always live on at the DIA and we applaud her decision to share these works of art with the public," Graham W.J. Beal, the museum's director, said Wednesday in a statement.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/02/16/detroit_institute_of_arts_given_art?mode=PF (261 words)

	IATWM December 2004: Detroit Institute of Arts
		The Detroit Industry Murals, a series, at the DIA and a mural at the Rockefeller Center in New York City.
		Hosting this important exhibition at the DIA is especially relevant given Detroit's industrial background and the fact that the museum is home to another important work depicting the Ford River Rouge plant, Diego Rivera's incomparable Detroit Industry murals." said Graham W. Beal, Director of the DIA.
		Detroit, famous for the auto industry, innovative music and is the home to one of the greatest art museums in the world!
	www.iatwm.com /200412/Detroit/index.html (732 words)

	Detroit Travel Guide \| Fodor's Online
		With the growth of the auto industry, Detroit and its suburbs spread out across an ever larger geographical area, eventually making it one of the country's largest cities.
		While Motown and Motor City are the nicknames that stick in people's minds, Detroit is also one of the world's busiest inland ports, a major steel producer, and a leader in the production of office equipment, paint, salt, garden seeds, and pharmaceuticals.
		The Detroit River is linked by 25 steamship companies to more than 40 countries; vessels ranging from ocean-going freighters to private yachts dock in the city's protected harbor.
	fodors.com /rants/rrread.cfm?destination=detroit@58&...&pg=2 (287 words)

	Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, MI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, MI museumstuff.com :: museums :: Detroit Institute of Arts
		-- The Detroit Institute of Arts is proud to claim one of the largest, most significant art collections in the nation.
		From the first painting donated in 1883 to the most recent acquisition, the DIA’s collection of over 65,000 works brings the culture and history of the world to Detroit’s doorstep.
	www.museumstuff.com /rec/org_20020201_12000.html (214 words)

	Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
		The Detroit Institute of Arts holds one of the finest collections of American art of the 18th through early 20th centuries portraying a magnificent overview of the nation's aesthetic achievement.
		Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of the Arts
		The collection of post-antique Italian sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts is considered among the three finest and most comprehensive outside Europe; however, this large and distinguished collection, whose formation began a century ago, has never been published in its entirety as a museum catalogue.
	www.buildingphotos.com /attractions/DE-dia.shtml (565 words)

	Charity Navigator Rating - The Detroit Institute of Arts
		Founded in 1885, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) has been a beacon of culture for the Detroit area for well over a century.
		The DIA's collection is one of the largest, most significant in the United States, comprising a multicultural and multinational survey of human creativity from prehistory through the 21st century.
		A hallmark of the DIA is the diversity of the collection.
	www.charitynavigator.org /index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/3619.htm (200 words)

	Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit, MI - Insider Pages: Restaurants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Detroit Institute of Arts is a great place to go if you enjoy nice pieces of art.
		Detroit Institute of Arts, better known as the "DIA"
		It is the epitome of classic American art and storytelling.
	www.insiderpages.com /b/3716138755 (803 words)

	The Detroit Institute of Arts African Arts - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The African art collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts did not emerge as a hallmark of the museum until after the 1920s, when the DIA's director, Dr. William R. Valentiner, began to build upon the modest bequest of objects from one of its original founders, Frederick Stearns.
		With the subsequent generous bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford and the hiring of Michael Kan as Curator of African Art in the 1970s, the DIA made some of its most important acquisitions, pieces that reshaped and expanded the collection's scope.
		The DIA is not only undergoing a total transformation of its physical structure, which comprises more than 160,000 square feet of space, but is also working toward a more accessible and appealing presentation of its collections.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0438/is_4_36/ai_n6158017 (826 words)

	Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit, MI, 48202 - Citysearch
		There are also audiophone tours of the galleries of 19th- and 20th-century, Islamic and ancient art.
		The Detroit Film Theatre showcases film as art; the 1,150-seat theater has presented contemporary, classic, art and foreign films for more than 25 years.
		The Detroit Institute of Arts includes Italian Renaissance art; a rare armor collection, works by several notable African-American artists (including Romare Bearden), a gallery of African masks and works by Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Breughel and Andy Warhol.
	www.citysearch.com /profile/5220850 (234 words)

	Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts September 23 through January ...
		This special loan exhibition of 19th and 20th century modern masterpieces is drawn from The Robert Tannahill Collection at The Detroit Institute of Arts.
		Born in Detroit, Robert Tannahill (1893-1967) was first exposed to collecting by his mother who had a passion for American decorative arts.
		He chaired a group called the Friends of Modern Art, which sought to build a collection of modern art at The Detroit Institute of Arts by donating at least one work per year.
	www.absolutearts.com /cgi-bin/news/arts-news-elaborate.cgi?output_number=20&find=2049 (965 words)

	PND - News - Detroit Institute of Arts Capital Campaign Off to $54 Million Start
		The Detroit Institute of Arts has received a total of $54 million from three local philanthropists toward its recently announced $180 million capital campaign, Art Museum Network News reports.
		The catalyst for the Great Art, New Start campaign was the discovery of asbestos in the museum's north and south wings during a renovation and expansion project.
		He is also the founding member of the Archives of American Art in Detroit and a trustee of the Michigan Foundation of the Arts.
	foundationcenter.org /pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=118900032 (343 words)

	American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 - Van Gogh Museum - ...
		The paintings and sculptures are from the Detroit Institute of Arts, which boasts one of the most representative collections of American art in the world.
		One of the movements to arise in American art was the Hudson River School (the National School), founded by Thomas Cole and Thomas Doughty, which made its appearance in the second half of the 19th century.
		At the beginning of the 20th century a group of New York Realists changed the motto art for arts sake into art for lifes sake.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2002/10/18/30401.html (684 words)

	Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit - Reviews of Detroit Institute of Arts - TripAdvisor
		Considered to house one of the best art collections in the United States, the Institute showcases everything from mummies to modern art and African masks to Monets in its outstanding collection of over 65,000 works.
		Don't miss the General Motors Center for African American Art, a part of the DIA which showcases 400 pieces, in various media, by African American artists.
		Art, African-American history and automotive technology are represented by the Detroit-Dearborn area's museums.
	www.tripadvisor.com /Attraction_Review-g42139-d265439-Reviews-Detroit_Institute_of_Arts-Detroit_Michigan.html (653 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Ford bequest to Detroit museum valued at $15M
		Among the works she has gifted to the Detroit museum are Pablo Picasso's Girl Reading, a 1938 portrait of the artist's lover Dora Maar, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Coco, a 1905 portrait of his third son.
		She offered major support for fundraising campaigns, served on Detroit's Arts Commission and on the museum's board of directors.
		The Detroit Institute of the Arts is the fifth largest art museum in the U.S. with 60,000 works in its collection.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/02/16/detroit-museum-gift.html (1281 words)

	Detroit Hotels: The Detroit Institute of Arts
		The Detroit Institute of Arts has many hotels located within 5 miles.
		We have tried to show you the top 10 hotels around The Detroit Institute of Arts.
		This will let you compare the best hotel rates for the The Detroit Institute of Arts area.
	www.roomrate.com /detroit/attractions/detroitInstituteArts.asp (179 words)

	Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 Vols. Eighth to Sixteenth Century ; Seventeenth to Twentieth ...
		Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 Vols.
		The other fundamental differences derive from the contrast between a municipal museum which has had to rely on donors either to give their collections or to finance purchases, as against one where the curator has in effect been answerable only to his director and chairman.
		By contrast, Detroit does not have an especially illustrious collection of bronzes--the main exceptions being the Judith attributed to Antonio Pollaiuolo (no. 57), and two substantial nude figures of Mars and Neptune given to Danese Cattaneo (nos.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_497_158/ai_106732111 (858 words)

	Detroit Institute of Arts books, find the lowest prices
		A Museum on the Verge : A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1882-2000
		by Detroit Institute of Arts, Alan Phipps Darr
		African Masterworks in the Detroit Institute of Arts
	www.allbookstores.com /Detroit_Institute_Of_Arts.html (385 words)

	Art News - absolutearts.com / World Wide Arts Resources - Artist / Gallery Portfolios, International Art News
		A key-operative mode in Pavel Büchler’s praxis is a reinvention of storytelling, long-time peeled away from the surfaces of modern and contemporary art or too often replaced by mere testimony.
		The Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art is the first publicly funded contemporary art museum in mainland China.
		It is intended to foster personal vision by offering a unique opportunity for working professional artists to expand their art and experience by making contact with Chinese and other international artists while working in the dynamic environment that the city of Shanghai and the Duolun MoMA provide.
	absolutearts.com /cgi-bin/news/...?output_number=20&find=2049 (941 words)

	Art Museum - The Detroit Institute of Arts: A LEGO® creation by Jim Garrett : MOCpages.com
		Art Museum - The Detroit Institute of Arts.
		This MOC depicts the original center section of the art museum building in minifig scale.
		Unfortunately for the would be art thieves, a Detroit PD officer is waiting to take the situation in hand.
	www.mocpages.com /moc.php/6174 (722 words)

	Detroit Institutes of the Arts
		Detroit Institute of Arts spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of the Ford family fortune in the 1980's redesigning its front entrance with fountains, expensive masonry, and landscaping.
		The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit all began as sparkling edifices, the fulfillment of the dreams of their architects and developers.
		Their end did not come suddenly, as part of some natural disaster or war.
	detroityes.com /art/01diadecay.htm (128 words)

	EarthCam - Motown Cam
		Experience multiple views of Motown's skyline and the heart of Detroit's cultural center including The Fisher Building Tower, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Detroit Main Library via a live EarthCam webcam located at the Detroit Science Center.
		Founded in 1701 by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, as a trading post for the French to do business with the Chippewa, Detroit gained fame about 200 years later as the birthplace of the mass production car industry and the Motown sound.
		Detroit is home to the oldest state fair in the nation (1849), and has the dubious distinction of potato chip capital of the world.
	www.earthcam.com /usa/michigan/detroit/dsc (281 words)

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