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An impressive and ambitious group of Metro Detroit art-world movers
plans to open a museum on the edge Detroit's cultural center this fall.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit will be located in a 1920s
building on the southeast corner of Woodward Avenue at Garfield Street,
said Marsha Miro, volunteer acting director of the museum's founding
board. The museum will be near a strip of galleries that includes CPop
and the Detroit Artists Market.
The museum will concentrate on the art of today, while the Detroit
Institute of Arts maintains an encyclopedic collection that goes back
to prehistorical time. Also, the new museum will not build a permanent
collection but will stage special exhibitions.
George N'Namdi, owner of the G.R. N'Namdi gallery, is thrilled about the museum.
"It's something we've needed in our community for a long time. A lot
of other communities have contemporary museums but we don't have one.
There will be challenges (in getting MOCAD off the ground), but they're
going about it in a very positive way and they have the ability to
accomplish what they've set out to do.
"It will broaden the base of patrons for art," N'Namdi said. "The
DIA can't get everyone to come out. If anything, this will provide the
kind of positive competition that helps everyone grow."
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