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U.S. Galleries and Art Spaces Shut Their Doors to Protest ICE in The Observer, Online, January 30, 2026
Detroit area businesses, schools join general strike against ICE in Detroit Free Press, Online, January 30, 2026
Leading U.S. Museums and Galleries Join Nationwide Strike Protesting ICE in artnet, Online, January 29, 2026
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit sets spring reopening in Axios, Online, January 23, 2026
Renovated MOCAD announces reopening date with exhibitions by Detroit-area artists in Detroit Metro Times, Online, January 23, 2026
MOCAD announces spring reopening, Olayami Dabls show in Detroit Free Press, Online, January 22, 2026
Michigan’s Top Attractions For 2026 in WRIF Online, January 5, 2025
Culture Canvas: Looking ahead to 2026 in BridgeDetroit, December 23, 2025
Detroit, UNESCO City of Design, Ten Years Later in PIN-UP Magazine, November 19, 2025
The Metro: MOCAD’s Co-Director talks 20 years bringing fine arts to community, in WDET, October 27, 2025
Heart Land mentioned in Detroit Metro Times, September 17, 2025
Knight Foundation grant mentioned in Outlier Media, September 9, 2025
Knight Foundation announces nearly $20M in grants for Detroit organizations, in WXYZ Detroit, September 8, 2025
Detroit gets $19.8M from Knight Foundation to boost art, technology, and community projects, in Detroit Free Press, September 8, 2025
Nearly $20M in grants to support Detroit neighborhoods, Joe Louis Greenway, tech economy in Crain’s Detroit Business, September 8, 2025
Renovations and closure mentioned in Bridge Detroit, August 26, 2025
MOCAD to close doors through early 2026 for critical renovations, in Detroit Free Press, August 24, 2025
MOCAD Closes for Renovations, in NewCity, August 21, 2025
MOCAD to close until early 2026 for renovations ahead of 20th celebration, in Click On Detroit, August 20, 2025
Detroit’s MOCAD to shut main building next week for renovations until early 2026, in the Detroit News, August 19, 2025
Pastiche Lumumba by Brian Droitcour, in BOMB Magazine, August 4, 2025
The Body, The Machine, The Site: InConversation with Jova Lynne and Marie Madison-Patton, in Detroit Cultural, July 26, 2025
Celebrating 60 Years At Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, in Forbes, June 8, 2025
Culture Canvas: Ghosts in the glass, in Bridge Detroit, April 29, 2025
The Metro: New MOCAD exhibit to highlight contributions of Black tech innovators, in WDET, April 28, 2025
Detroit Art Institutions Resist Political Challenges to Diversity, in the New York Times, April 23, 2025
In Detroit, MOCAD Is Putting Community at the Core of Contemporary Art, in Observer, April 15, 2025
Glass memorial at MOCAD explores gun violence, in Axios, April 9, 2025
Levon Kafafian’s Cocoon From the Future, in Hyperallergic, January 8, 2025
Levon Kafafian weaves their story of a post-digital collapse in thread, in MetroTimes, December 23, 2024
Surrealism 2.0: Four Exhibitions at MOCAD that Define New-Wave Surrealism, in Newcity Art, December 18, 2024
MOCAD celebrates 100 years of surrealism, in Bridge Detroit, December 3, 2024
Communal Power, in Edition, December 1, 2024
Dezeen selects standout American design and architecture events from November in Dezeen, November 29, 2024
Surrealist Furniture; Snapshots of Britain in the ’80s; and a Friendship That Broke Artistic Convention in The Grand Tourist, November 27, 2024
Chris Schanck’s A Surreality Brings a Sci-Fi Dreamscape to Detroit’s MOCAD in StupidDope, November 18, 2024
Half a Century of Black Art in Detroit in Hyperallergic, September 1, 2024
More than $4m awarded to US curators to support exhibitions and climate initiatives in The Art Newspaper, August 27, 2024
Remembering Black Power: A Review of “Kinship: A Legacy of Gallery 7” at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Detroit in Newcity Art, August 15, 2024
MOCAD’s powerful summer exhibitions signal a bold new era for Midtown Detroit institution in Detroit Free Press, July 22, 2024
LaKela Brown explores Black identity in MOCAD homecoming show in MetroTimes, July 8, 2024
Kinship: The Legacy of Gallery 7 and From Scratch: Seeding Adornment @ MOCAD in Detroit Art Review, July 2, 2024
‘Time is Now’ is a timeless survey of Charles McGee’s legacy in MetroTimes, May 21, 2024
John Sinclair memorial service and reception set for Tuesday in Detroit in Detroit Free Press, April 4, 2024
Progressive Art Studio Collective artists radiate exuberance and joy in first museum show at MOCAD in Detroit Free Press, January 5, 2024
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