MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT

It was a big night for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, better known as MOCAD, as Friday was the annual gala and art auction.

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Work by Charles McGee, Gilda Snowden also planned for exhibits opening in April

DETROIT – A new exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is celebrating the work of Black artists through books. “I love Black art. I love art books and my background is in art education,” said Asmaa Walton. “A large part of exhibit is inviting people to appreciate Black art.”Walton called the collection Black Art Library. The Black Art Library runs until April 18 at MOCAD with strict social distancing guidelines in place.

click to enlarge MOCADclick to enlarge MOCADThe Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is offering cocktails-to-go and bottles of wine for pick-up at its Café 78.The bottled cocktails can be ordered online and the customer can get a notification when the order is ready for pick-up.Cocktails include a Manhattan called the Nan-hattan, named after Detroit artist Nancy Mitchnick. It features Four Roses Bourbon, Luxardo Maraschino, and Angostura bitters.There are three other cocktails offered for pick-up, including a high ball made with Glyph Molecular Whiskey, house-infused lavender vodka, dry curacao, and citrus bitters called All the Bells.There's also a Negroni made with Beefeater London Dry Gin, Carpano Bianco Vermouth, and Cocchi Americano Apertivo.The Kandor 10 is made with Tanqueray, Green Chartreuse, St. Germain, and dry vermouth.Each bottle makes a “hefty drink,” according to the description. A single is $12 and a 4-pack is only $28. You can even add special instructions to have your drink customized.The drink pick-up menu is just one way that MOCAD is adjusting during the coronavirus pandemic. The museum is still open with strict COVID-19 protocols.While you're picking up your cocktails from the museum, you can check out the exhibition by Conrad Egyir,, the first solo museum show for Detroit-based visual artist.For this debut, Egyir created a new body of work while in residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York City during the summer of 2019.The works in this show focus on figurative characters that reside or bestride three geographical spaces — Detroit, New York, and Aburi, Ghana — and how the cultures of each of these locations define citizenship, migration, hybrid spaces, and political and religious revolutions.

"Hughes says another exhibition at MOCAD involving the work of juveniles who had been sentenced to life in prison also moved her. "I just remember being really, really struck by young people sharing their stories," she says. "Hughes says that she doesn't want to be the permanent executive director of the museum, and is committed to creating a "roadmap" for whoever her successor is. "And then someone who also had an interest in the intersections of social justice and art, and really loved Detroit and prioritized Detroiters. "Hughes, who was announced as interim director on Thursday, says she's already hit the ground running.

click to enlarge Courtesy of the artistsNew Red Order: Crimes Against Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, exhibition view, 2020. Senior curator Jova Lynne, who rejoined the museum earlier this year , will introduce the program.is a sort of recruitment video for New Red Order. "This promotional initiation video lures inductees with promises of decolonization and settler remediation," is how MOCAD describes the film. "New Red Order is also working with the museum to implement a land acknowledgement practice. Beyond that, New Red Order is asking MOCAD to develop concrete practices to continue to build relationships in the Indigenous community.To that end, New Red Order is forming a Waawiiyaataanong Arts Council to receive input from Detroit's Indigenous community and guide MOCAD's land acknowledgement process.

It also includes working to increase the diversity of the museum's board "so that ⅓ of the board will reflect economically and racially diverse communities. "In a statement, the museum thanked New Red Order for pushing it. "The work of NRO and this exhibition has been instrumental in setting forth institutional change," the museum wrote in a statement. The museum says it is also setting aside a budget to "support future programming aiming to amplify the voices of Indigenous Peoples. "The museum says it hopes to be able announce details regarding the land acknowledgement practice ahead of its forthcoming winter season.

click to enlarge Lee DeVitoI didnt consent to my face hanging in this art gallery, Ze Ligon says. Like many contemporary cultural institutions, MOCAD has always been a space for the playing out of disparate and conflicting ideas. A talk by Brian Wallis on the work of Richard Prince will be held on Nov. 7 with a community dinner to follow, furthering the discussion. The point of the exhibition is to speak about these issues of ownership and ask these questions. Anyone who undertakes a Richard Prince show understands that some visitors may have difficulty with the work.

Treat your kids to a colorful sci-fi experience at the Robolights Detroit exhibit, on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit through May 3, 2020. Give her a dose of both at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroits new temporary site-specific installation, Robolights Detroit. Robolights Detroit is open during regular Mobile Homestead hours, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday-Sunday. Admission to the exhibit is free, though a $5 suggested donation is welcome to help support the MOCAD. - Advertisement -For more information on this exhibit or other family fun things to do this weekend in metro Detroit and Ann Arbor see the Metro Parent calendar.