Usually my virtual visits to museums are only shared with my Patron community but I'm so excited about my recent visit to the Detroit Institute of Arts that I decided to share it with everyone! Enjoy!
I was FINALLY able to get back to the Detroit Institute of Arts the Saturday of MLK weekend. For months, I’d been wanting to see their VanGogh in America exhibit. I either had the time but not the money or the money and not the time; however, over the holidays, fate finally went my way. My day there was 99% perfection WITH a stunning tear-inducing surprise.
Let’s talk about the VanGogh exhibit first. VanGogh in America featured dozens of paintings and drawings from collections all over the world including the VanGogh Museum in the Netherlands. I was grateful I’d selected an early entry time because the crowds quickly gathered! I overheard an employee mention that nearly a quarter of a million people had visited the show since the beginning of its run in October. Many of the works were familiar to me, and I’d seen some of them at their home museums. However, my favorite of the exhibit was one I’d never seen before on loan from a museum in Madrid – “The Stevedores in Arles, 1888”. VanGogh is known as a master of color, and the sky in this painting is beautiful. It took me around two and a half hours to make my way through, and even though I had to wait for the right time to be able to go, it was 1000% worth it!
I was tired but a good tired but also knew there are beloved DIA standards that I knew I had to spend some time with including but not only Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals. On the way there, I stopped at one of the galleries that had paintings I hadn’t seen before there. As I made my way around the room with paintings from the likes of Salvador Dali and Yves Tanguay, I saw a small painting with a style, color choice, and subject matter that struck me as familiar. As I got closer, I had to choke back tears. The painting was “Congress of the Peoples for Peace, 1952”…by Frida Kahlo. The Detroit Institute of Arts finally FINALLY has a Frida Kahlo painting! It’s about time since she and Diego spent very important time there both as a married couple and as artists, and I am incredibly happy that Frida finally got the representation she deserves there. Seeing the Frida painting was how I ended my wonderful day. It couldn’t have been much better!
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