Chicago Tribune touts Detroit’s cultural revival
The Chicago Tribune finds the spark of creativity alive and well in
Detroit as exemplified at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
The Chicago Tribune finds the spark of creativity alive and well in
Detroit as exemplified at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Excerpt:
But as Detroit’s industrial economy falters, the city is enjoying an
entertainment and cultural revival, including new sports stadiums, new
casinos and a new symphony hall.
The city has even made a couple of lists of places to visit in 2008.
“There’s a visible renaissance going on in downtown Detroit,” said Reed
Kroloff, a former architecture critic who recently moved to the area to
direct the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills,
a Detroit suburb. “A lot of people think Detroit does nothing except
decline.”
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