Past Events
BEAUTY AND RUIN follows the fight over the artwork in the Detroit Institute of Art as Detroit faces bankruptcy. The city retirees face losing their pensions, the creditors want the art sold and the museum wants to keep this important cultural treasure safe for future generations. What is the price of culture?
Trailblazer Yayoi Kusama’s turbulent quest to become a world famous artist is documented in Kusama - Infinity; as a rival of Warhol in the ‘60s, Kusama battled sexism and racism in America while her hallucinations of polka dots eventually led her to the Tokyo mental institution she has called home for over 30 years.
IN THE INTENSE NOW draws from the visual archive of the global 1968 revolutions in four countries—France, Czechoslovakia, China, and Brazil—to examine what is captured and what is lost in images of great historical intensity.
“Pressing On: The Letterpress Film” is a documentary that beautifully captures the art and technology of the 500-year-old craft of letterpress that explores the question: why has letterpress survived?
This film goes behind the scenes of one of the greatest knowledge institutions in the world and reveals how places like this are more than a place to check out a book, but have evolved as a place of cultural exchange and learning. Free Fridays, no charge.
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