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MARCH 6, 2026

SPRING 2026 AT MOCAD: LORIS GRÉAUD*CORTICAL:SMOKE+MIRRORS

JANUARY 28, 2026

SPRING 2026 AT MOCAD: NEW SEASON USHERS IN THE MUSEUM’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY

OCTOBER 6, 2025

MOCAD PRESENTS PHOENIX RISING: 19TH ANNUAL GALA + ART AUCTION

AUGUST 18, 2025

MOCAD ANNOUNCES PLANS TO CELEBRATE 20 YEARS

JULY 9, 2025

MOCAD RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS GRANT FROM THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS

MARCH 3, 2025

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT ANNOUNCES THE GUN VIOLENCE MEMORIAL PROJECT

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MOCAD IN THE NEWS


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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