January 2022 Activities at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Updated Dec 8, 2021
December 8, 2021 (DETROIT)— Events and programs are added every day. At this time, all museum visitors must make an advance reservation by phone at (313) 833-4005 or online at https://ticketapp.dia.org.
Visit www.dia.org/events to stay up-to-date and to register to the events below, and to sign up to the DIA’s weekly newsletter to get the latest DIA news and updates.
General admission is always free for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.
Special Holiday Museum Hours
Saturday, January 1–Sunday, January 2, CLOSED
Exhibitions
The 13th Annual Community Group Art Exhibition closes January 2, 2022
“Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950–2020” closes January 9, 2022
“Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite” closes January 16, 2022
“The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion” through April 17
“Shirley Woodson: Shield of the Nile Reflections” through June 12
Ongoing
Thursdays at the Museum Online: 1 p.m.
Join the Detroit Institute of Arts every Thursday at 1 p.m. for FREE online programs for adults 55 and over. Experience something fun every week, including virtual tours of the collection and artists’ studios, art talks, art-making and films. Thursdays at the Museum is made possible by your tri-county millage support.
Now booking in-person, self-guided tours for adults 55+. Reservations can be made at www.dia.org/Thursdays for a 2-hour visit. The DIA provides free transportation for groups of 25 or more.
Film: No Lye: An American Beauty Story
By the 1960s, the sale of Black health and beauty aids blossomed into a multi-million-dollar business that was influenced by the civil rights movement. A decade later, innovative hairstyles and cosmetic products transformed the market into a billion-dollar industry. This film details the impact of popular culture on ethnic beauty standards in America, profiling beauty industry pioneers, including Annie Malone, Madam C.J. Walker, Samuel B. Fuller, John H. Johnson, George E. Johnson, Comer Cottrell, Soft Sheen Products, Luster Products, Bronner Bros, and Essence Magazine.
Presented free for home-streaming in conjunction with the exhibition “Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite.”
Thursday, January 6
Thursdays “at” the Museum: Studio Visit: Tyanna Buie 1 p.m.
Screen printer Tyanna Buie will demonstrate and discuss their work, which has been exhibited in numerous juried, group and solo exhibitions throughout the country.
Friday, January 7
Detroit Film Theatre: World Of Wong Kar-wai: Days of Being Wild 7 p.m.
The DIA Detroit Film Theatre is highlighting the work of Hong Kong film director, screen writer and producer Wong Kar-wai in the month of January.
His breakthrough feature, Days of Being Wild, represents his signature loosely connected, ongoing storyline. In this film, Kar-wai takes the audience to Hong Kong in the 1960s where a group of twentysomethings pull together and push apart in a cycle of frustrated desire. In Cantonese with English subtitles. Tickets are $9.50 for general admission and $7.50 for DIA members, seniors and students.
To attend screenings and events at the Detroit Film Theatre, visitors are required to show at the door a current photo ID and proof of full vaccination or negative COVID test. Learn more about visiting at www.dia.org/covid19policies.
Saturday, January 8
Detroit Film Theatre: World Of Wong Kar-wai: Chungking Express 2 p.m.
The DIA Detroit Film Theatre is highlighting the work of Hong Kong film director, screen writer and producer Wong Kar-wai in the month of January.
In Chungking Express two heartsick Hong Kong police officers cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal waitress Faye prepares meals to the beat of the Mamas and the Papas’ California Dreamin’. In Cantonese with English subtitles. Tickets are $9.50 for general admission and $7.50 for DIA members, seniors and students.
To attend screenings and events at the Detroit Film Theatre, visitors are required to show at the door a current photo ID and proof of full vaccination or negative COVID test. Learn more about visiting at www.dia.org/covid19policies.
Detroit Film Theatre: World Of Wong Kar-wai: Happy Together 7 p.m.
The DIA Detroit Film Theatre is highlighting the work of Hong Kong film director, screen writer and producer Wong Kar-wai in the month of January.
Happy Together is a raw, stylized portrait of a relationship of a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a cycle of infatuation and destructive jealousy as they break up, make up and fall apart again and again. Setting out to depict the dynamics of a queer relationship with empathy and complexity on the cusp of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong—when the country’s LGBT community suddenly faced an uncertain future—War-kai crafts a look at the life cycle of a love affair that is by turns devastating and romantic. In Cantonese, Mandarin, and Spanish with English subtitles. Tickets are $9.50 for general admission and $7.50 for DIA members, seniors and students.
To attend screenings and events at the Detroit Film Theatre, visitors are required to show at the door a current photo ID and proof of full vaccination or negative COVID test. Learn more about visiting at www.dia.org/covid19policies.
Sunday, January 9
Detroit Film Theatre: World Of Wong Kar-wai: In the Mood for Love 2 p.m.
The DIA Detroit Film Theatre is highlighting the work of Hong Kong film director, screen writer and producer Wong Kar-wai in the month of January.
In 1962 Hong Kong, two people move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. Winner of 46 international film awards, including Best Actor (Tony Leung) and Special Technical Grand Prizes, Cannes Film Festival 2000. In Cantonese and Shanghainese with English subtitles. Tickets are $9.50 for general admission and $7.50 for DIA members, seniors and students.
To attend screenings and events at the Detroit Film Theatre, visitors are required to show at the door a current photo ID and proof of full vaccination or negative COVID test. Learn more about visiting at www.dia.org/covid19policies.
Thursday, January 13
Thursdays “at” the Museum: Virtual Tour: Exceptional Baroque Art of the DIA 1 p.m.
Visit www.dia.org/ThursdaysatHome for more information.
Friday, January 14
Detroit Film Theatre: Luzzu 7 p.m.
A hardworking Maltese fisherman is faced with a wrenching choice between repairing his leaky, wooden “luzzu” (a traditional Maltese fishing boat) in the hopes of supporting himself at sea, or he could cast his lot, and dignity, with a sinister black-market operation that’s decimating the Mediterranean fish population and the livelihoods of the locals who depend on it. In Maltese with English subtitles. Tickets are $9.50 for general admission and $7.50 for DIA members, seniors and students.
To attend screenings and events at the Detroit Film Theatre, visitors are required to show at the door a current photo ID and proof of full vaccination or negative COVID test. Learn more about visiting at www.dia.org/covid19policies.
Saturday, January 15
Free Family Fun: The Legend of Hei 2 p.m.
Xiao Hei is the cutest feline around but audiences shouldn’t let his good looks fool them, as he’s more than just a cat. When he meets up with a motley band of spirits, Hei finds that he is also a spirit and shapeshifts into a kid. His new friends train and challenge him in the warrior spirit arts, with the pressing goal of saving their beloved forest from developers destroying it in this lushly rendered tale. Evoking Studio Ghibli’s ecological fables, The Legend of Hei is a combination of heart, soul, fantasy and an adventure.
This program is free with registration. Children under 12 who cannot be vaccinated may attend screenings accompanied by a fully vaccinated adult and must wear a mask.
Detroit Film Theatre: Luzzu 7 p.m.
(see Jan. 14 for description)
Sunday, January 16
Detroit Film Theatre: Luzzu 2 p.m.
(see Jan. 14 for description)
Friday, January 21
Friday Night Live! Michigan Philharmonic: Miniature Masterpieces 7 p.m.
Miniature Masterpieces come in all shapes and sizes and for this performance the Michigan Philharmonic presents mandolinist and composer Brad Phillips and the debut of his composition for Mandolin and Strings (2021). Also included are Alexander Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880), Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for Mandolin in C Major RV425 (1725), Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Music for Small Orchestra (1926) and Henry Cowell’s Persian Set (1957).
Saturday, January 22
Free Family Fun: Puppet Performance: Dirty Gerts 2 p.m.
This paper pop-up extravaganza features a blend of historical fiction, 60s pop culture and colorful confetti as middle-schooler Carol Lee Bell discovers the best way to fit in is not to fit in at all.
Thursday, January 27
Thursdays “at” the Museum: Concert: Chamber Orchestra: By Her Hand 1 p.m.
Visit www.dia.org/ThursdaysatHome for more information.
Friday, January 28
Friday Night Live! Ellen Rowe: Momentum–Portraits of Women in Music 7 p.m.
With Momentum - Portraits of Women in Music, Ellen Rowe has assembled a program of original music rendered by eight amazing women jazz musicians and written for women—specifically to honor those female trailblazers in various fields that have inspired her, including jazz, politics, social justice, environmental advocacy, and sports.
ED NOTE: Image: Still of Wong Kar-wai’s Days of Being Wild, playing at the Detroit Film Theatre on Friday, January 7 at 7 p.m.
Museum Hours and Admission
9 a.m.–4 p.m. Tuesdays–Thursdays, 9 a.m.–9 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. General admission (excludes ticketed exhibitions) is free for Macomb, Oakland and Wayne county residents and DIA members. For all others, $14 for adults, $9 for seniors ages 62+, $8 for college students, $6 for ages 6–17. For membership information, call 313-833-7971.
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The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), one of the premier art museums in the United States, is home to more than 65,000 works that comprise a multicultural survey of human creativity from ancient times through the 21st century. From the first Van Gogh painting to enter a U.S. museum (Self-Portrait, 1887), to Diego Rivera's world-renowned Detroit Industry murals (1932–33), the DIA’s collection is known for its quality, range and depth. The DIA’s mission is to create opportunities for all visitors to find personal meaning in art individually and with each other.
Programs are made possible with support from residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.
December 8, 2021 (DETROIT)— Events and programs are added every day. At this time, all museum visitors must make an advance reservation by phone at (313) 833-4005 or online at https://ticketapp.dia.org.
Visit www.dia.org/events to stay up-to-date and to register to the events below, and to sign up to the DIA’s weekly newsletter to get the latest DIA news and updates.
General admission is always free for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.
Special Holiday Museum Hours
Saturday, January 1–Sunday, January 2, CLOSED
Exhibitions
The 13th Annual Community Group Art Exhibition closes January 2, 2022
“Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950–2020” closes January 9, 2022
“Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite” closes January 16, 2022
“The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion” through April 17
“Shirley Woodson: Shield of the Nile Reflections” through June 12
Ongoing
Thursdays at the Museum Online: 1 p.m.
Join the Detroit Institute of Arts every Thursday at 1 p.m. for FREE online programs for adults 55 and over. Experience something fun every week, including virtual tours of the collection and artists’ studios, art talks, art-making and films. Thursdays at the Museum is made possible by your tri-county millage support.
Now booking in-person, self-guided tours for adults 55+. Reservations can be made at www.dia.org/Thursdays for a 2-hour visit. The DIA provides free transportation for groups of 25 or more.
Film: No Lye: An American Beauty Story
By the 1960s, the sale of Black health and beauty aids blossomed into a multi-million-dollar business that was influenced by the civil rights movement. A decade later, innovative hairstyles and cosmetic products transformed the market into a billion-dollar industry. This film details the impact of popular culture on ethnic beauty standards in America, profiling beauty industry pioneers, including Annie Malone, Madam C.J. Walker, Samuel B. Fuller, John H. Johnson, George E. Johnson, Comer Cottrell, Soft Sheen Products, Luster Products, Bronner Bros, and Essence Magazine.
Presented free for home-streaming in conjunction with the exhibition “Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite.”
Thursday, January 6
Thursdays “at” the Museum: Studio Visit: Tyanna Buie 1 p.m.
Screen printer Tyanna Buie will demonstrate and discuss their work, which has been exhibited in numerous juried, group and solo exhibitions throughout the country.
Friday, January 7
Detroit Film Theatre: World Of Wong Kar-wai: Days of Being Wild 7 p.m.
The DIA Detroit Film Theatre is highlighting the work of Hong Kong film director, screen writer and producer Wong Kar-wai in the month of January.
His breakthrough feature, Days of Being Wild, represents his signature loosely connected, ongoing storyline. In this film, Kar-wai takes the audience to Hong Kong in the 1960s where a group of twentysomethings pull together and push apart in a cycle of frustrated desire. In Cantonese with English subtitles. Tickets are $9.50 for general admission and $7.50 for DIA members, seniors and students.
To attend screenings and events at the Detroit Film Theatre, visitors are required to show at the door a current photo ID and proof of full vaccination or negative COVID test. Learn more about visiting at www.dia.org/covid19policies.
Saturday, January 8
Detroit Film Theatre: World Of Wong Kar-wai: Chungking Express 2 p.m.
The DIA Detroit Film Theatre is highlighting the work of Hong Kong film director, screen writer and producer Wong Kar-wai in the month of January.
In Chungking Express two heartsick Hong Kong police officers cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal waitress Faye prepares meals to the beat of the Mamas and the Papas’ California Dreamin’. In Cantonese with English subtitles. Tickets are $9.50 for general admission and $7.50 for DIA members, seniors and students.
To attend screenings and events at the Detroit Film Theatre, visitors are required to show at the door a current photo ID and proof of full vaccination or negative COVID test. Learn more about visiting at www.dia.org/covid19policies.
Detroit Film Theatre: World Of Wong Kar-wai: Happy Together 7 p.m.
The DIA Detroit Film Theatre is highlighting the work of Hong Kong film director, screen writer and producer Wong Kar-wai in the month of January.
Happy Together is a raw, stylized portrait of a relationship of a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a cycle of infatuation and destructive jealousy as they break up, make up and fall apart again and again. Setting out to depict the dynamics of a queer relationship with empathy and complexity on the cusp of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong—when the country’s LGBT community suddenly faced an uncertain future—War-kai crafts a look at the life cycle of a love affair that is by turns devastating and romantic. In Cantonese, Mandarin, and Spanish with English subtitles. Tickets are $9.50 for general admission and $7.50 for DIA members, seniors and students.
To attend screenings and events at the Detroit Film Theatre, visitors are required to show at the door a current photo ID and proof of full vaccination or negative COVID test. Learn more about visiting at www.dia.org/covid19policies.
Sunday, January 9
Detroit Film Theatre: World Of Wong Kar-wai: In the Mood for Love 2 p.m.
The DIA Detroit Film Theatre is highlighting the work of Hong Kong film director, screen writer and producer Wong Kar-wai in the month of January.
In 1962 Hong Kong, two people move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. Winner of 46 international film awards, including Best Actor (Tony Leung) and Special Technical Grand Prizes, Cannes Film Festival 2000. In Cantonese and Shanghainese with English subtitles. Tickets are $9.50 for general admission and $7.50 for DIA members, seniors and students.
To attend screenings and events at the Detroit Film Theatre, visitors are required to show at the door a current photo ID and proof of full vaccination or negative COVID test. Learn more about visiting at www.dia.org/covid19policies.
Thursday, January 13
Thursdays “at” the Museum: Virtual Tour: Exceptional Baroque Art of the DIA 1 p.m.
Visit www.dia.org/ThursdaysatHome for more information.
Friday, January 14
Detroit Film Theatre: Luzzu 7 p.m.
A hardworking Maltese fisherman is faced with a wrenching choice between repairing his leaky, wooden “luzzu” (a traditional Maltese fishing boat) in the hopes of supporting himself at sea, or he could cast his lot, and dignity, with a sinister black-market operation that’s decimating the Mediterranean fish population and the livelihoods of the locals who depend on it. In Maltese with English subtitles. Tickets are $9.50 for general admission and $7.50 for DIA members, seniors and students.
To attend screenings and events at the Detroit Film Theatre, visitors are required to show at the door a current photo ID and proof of full vaccination or negative COVID test. Learn more about visiting at www.dia.org/covid19policies.
Saturday, January 15
Free Family Fun: The Legend of Hei 2 p.m.
Xiao Hei is the cutest feline around but audiences shouldn’t let his good looks fool them, as he’s more than just a cat. When he meets up with a motley band of spirits, Hei finds that he is also a spirit and shapeshifts into a kid. His new friends train and challenge him in the warrior spirit arts, with the pressing goal of saving their beloved forest from developers destroying it in this lushly rendered tale. Evoking Studio Ghibli’s ecological fables, The Legend of Hei is a combination of heart, soul, fantasy and an adventure.
This program is free with registration. Children under 12 who cannot be vaccinated may attend screenings accompanied by a fully vaccinated adult and must wear a mask.
Detroit Film Theatre: Luzzu 7 p.m.
(see Jan. 14 for description)
Sunday, January 16
Detroit Film Theatre: Luzzu 2 p.m.
(see Jan. 14 for description)
Friday, January 21
Friday Night Live! Michigan Philharmonic: Miniature Masterpieces 7 p.m.
Miniature Masterpieces come in all shapes and sizes and for this performance the Michigan Philharmonic presents mandolinist and composer Brad Phillips and the debut of his composition for Mandolin and Strings (2021). Also included are Alexander Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880), Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for Mandolin in C Major RV425 (1725), Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Music for Small Orchestra (1926) and Henry Cowell’s Persian Set (1957).
Saturday, January 22
Free Family Fun: Puppet Performance: Dirty Gerts 2 p.m.
This paper pop-up extravaganza features a blend of historical fiction, 60s pop culture and colorful confetti as middle-schooler Carol Lee Bell discovers the best way to fit in is not to fit in at all.
Thursday, January 27
Thursdays “at” the Museum: Concert: Chamber Orchestra: By Her Hand 1 p.m.
Visit www.dia.org/ThursdaysatHome for more information.
Friday, January 28
Friday Night Live! Ellen Rowe: Momentum–Portraits of Women in Music 7 p.m.
With Momentum - Portraits of Women in Music, Ellen Rowe has assembled a program of original music rendered by eight amazing women jazz musicians and written for women—specifically to honor those female trailblazers in various fields that have inspired her, including jazz, politics, social justice, environmental advocacy, and sports.
ED NOTE: Image: Still of Wong Kar-wai’s Days of Being Wild, playing at the Detroit Film Theatre on Friday, January 7 at 7 p.m.
Museum Hours and Admission
9 a.m.–4 p.m. Tuesdays–Thursdays, 9 a.m.–9 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. General admission (excludes ticketed exhibitions) is free for Macomb, Oakland and Wayne county residents and DIA members. For all others, $14 for adults, $9 for seniors ages 62+, $8 for college students, $6 for ages 6–17. For membership information, call 313-833-7971.
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The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), one of the premier art museums in the United States, is home to more than 65,000 works that comprise a multicultural survey of human creativity from ancient times through the 21st century. From the first Van Gogh painting to enter a U.S. museum (Self-Portrait, 1887), to Diego Rivera's world-renowned Detroit Industry murals (1932–33), the DIA’s collection is known for its quality, range and depth. The DIA’s mission is to create opportunities for all visitors to find personal meaning in art individually and with each other.
Programs are made possible with support from residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.