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National Geographic
18-06-2025
- Automotive
- National Geographic
How Detroit reinvented itself as an unlikely star of the arts
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Detroit's story is often told in three acts. First came its rise. Once the beating heart of America's manufacturing industry, it was Motor City's assembly lines — the first of their kind in the world — that set the wheels in motion for an automotive revolution that brought motoring to the masses. Jobs and prosperity followed and by the 1950s, Detroit was among the richest cities in the world, its skyline stacked with art deco icons like the Guardian Building, which acted as beacons of industry. Next, act two: the fall. In the second half of the 20th century, automation in manufacturing and the outsourcing of production to cheaper locations ushered in widespread factory closures and layoffs. White flight to the suburbs, coupled with growing unrest among Detroit's African Americans — a group who had long suffered discrimination in housing and employment — left a segregated and struggling city. By 2013, years of poor financial management led to Detroit filing for the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. The city became synonymous with urban decay, crime and the collapse of the American dream. And now, the third act: the renaissance. New investment has rejuvenated Detroit's once hollowed-out neighbourhoods; in the central Corktown area, red-brick row (terraced) houses now sit alongside trendy coffee shops and international restaurants, and previously boarded-up buildings like the Michigan Central Station — once the poster child of the city's ruin — have enjoyed a $1bn facelift. So too has the Detroit Riverfront, a former industrial site with new parks and cycle lanes. Last year, for the first time since 1957, Detroit's population began to rise. For the first time since 1957, Detroit's population is on the rise. The city's creative energy is finally enjoying the financial backing of major corporations, philanthropic foundations and grassroots initiatives, all fostering inclusive growth in a city where nearly 80% of the population are African American. While its modern history is a tale of three acts, the city can attribute much of its success to its people — the Detroiters who have persevered even when the odds have been stacked against them. Fuelled by an enterprising spirit born from recent adversity, many have found new ways to inject life into their communities and cultural arenas. In Midtown, where the rhythms of jazz bars carry into the streets, a flourishing arts scene spills out of celebrated galleries like the Detroit Institute of Arts, while crumbling industrial corridors have been transformed into art-filled alleyways. The city's creative energy is finally enjoying the financial backing of major corporations, philanthropic foundations and grassroots initiatives, all fostering inclusive growth in a city where nearly 80% of the population are African American. Along with investment in the arts, there's been a bevy of new businesses, bars and restaurants opened by chefs of colour with a licence to do what Detroiters do best: rip up the rulebook. Because through boom and bust and back, one thing has always been a constant: Motor City's engine of innovation has never stopped running. DJ Problematic Black Hottie brings rhythm and life to the Rivera Court at a Detroit Institute of Arts music night, where guests dance amidst artwork by greats like Rodin, Matisse, Diego Rivera and Vincent Van Gogh. What to see and do The Motown Museum: In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr gifted the world with Motown, which birthed an entirely new music style defined by upbeat rhythm and blues. Named after Detroit's 'Motor Town' moniker, the visionary record label was housed in a building that's now home to the Motown Museum. Don't miss Studio A, where many timeless tracks were recorded from artists like The Supremes and Stevie Wonder. The Detroit Institute of Arts: Rodin's The Thinker strikes a contemplative pose at the foot of the Detroit Institute of Arts' magnificent Beaux-Arts building. Inside, you'll find masterpieces from Monet, Matisse and contemporary African American artists, yet compared with some of the US's other celebrated galleries, the DIA is practically crowd-free. That means no jostling for a view of a Van Gogh self-portrait or Diego Rivera's powerful Detroit Industry Murals. Cycle the City: A guided tour with Wheelhouse Detroit begins on the Detroit Riverfront, a once-industrial site now transformed into four miles of scenic promenades, pathways and parks. The trip then winds through some of the city's historic neighbourhoods. Expect a no-nonsense take on the redevelopment versus gentrification debate from proud Detroiter Kelli Kavanaugh, Wheelhouse's owner and dedicated tour guide, as she steers you through the cycle of urban change unfolding in her city. The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant: It was at this brick-and-timber factory that American industrialist Henry Ford initially assembled the iconic Model T, the world's first affordable car, which revolutionised the automotive industry. Now a charming museum, the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant has a rich collection of historic cars over three floors, brought to life by a passionate team of volunteers. The Henry Ford: This sprawling complex houses the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, whose interactive science exhibit explores how technological advancements have shaped American society. Next door is Greenfield Village, an 80-acre outdoor museum where Model Ts and Penny Farthings roll past replicas of the Wright brothers' workshop and Edison's lightbulb laboratory. And finally, there's the Ford Rogue Factory Tour with a real-life vehicle assembly line. Third Man Records has its own vinyl-pressing facility founded by Detroiter Jack White of The White Stripes. Detroiters Nathan Peck and Kristen Calverley have perfected the art of Detroit-style pizza at their Corktown restaurant Michigan & Trumbull. Where to go shopping Rebel Nell: What to do with the by-products from the construction projects sweeping through Detroit? That was the question Amy Peterson asked herself when faced with paint scraps from fallen graffiti — which she repurposes into jewellery under Rebel Nell, a fashion and art social enterprise that provides opportunities for local women facing barriers to employment. West Canfield Street: Three Detroit brands sit side by side on this street in the Cass Corridor district. Next door to Shinola's flagship store, known for luxury timepieces and leather goods, is Carhartt, whose overalls have kitted out Detroit's railway workers for over 100 years. Third Man Records has its own vinyl-pressing facility founded by Detroiter Jack White of The White Stripes. Avenue of Fashion: A resurgence of Black-owned businesses has transformed the city's historic Avenue of Fashion district. Don't miss Krispy Addicts, a Detroit clothing boutique, and Good Cakes and Bakes, which lives up to its name with treats like peach cobbler cookies. Like a local Friday Night Live! at the DIA: The Detroit Institute of Arts hosts its own night at the museum on Fridays, with exciting live music performances from special guests as varied as Afrobeat orchestras and Norwegian jazz trios. Stroll through the galleries with a glass of wine in hand for the perfect blend of art and ambience. Pizza, Detroit-Style: Everybody knows about Chicago-style pizza, but Detroit has its own square-shaped take on deep-pan pizza that locals swear by. Detroiters Nathan Peck and Kristen Calverley have perfected the art of Detroit-style pizza at their Corktown restaurant Michigan & Trumbull, which opened in 2020 with the financial support of a local business development programme. Eastern Market: On Saturdays, the US's largest outdoor farmers' market pulses with energy as local vendors flog fresh produce, artisanal foods and handmade crafts from their colourful stalls. Eastern Market is a major hub for the Michigan food industry, but it's always served the local community, too; Detroiters have been stopping by to pick up their groceries since 1891. Selden Standard's bar manager Andrew Zerbo pours bourbon for a guest. When hunger strikes, this nationally acclaimed restaurant serves small plates using ingredients from local farmers. Quality craftsmanship abounds at the Shinola Hotel, from the custom-made mohair sofas to vibrant artworks like the shimmering sequinned wall piece in the lobby-adjacent Living Room bar. Where to eat in Detroit Detroit 75 Kitchen: Brothers Mike and Ahmad Nassar needed to give drivers a reason to call in at their family-owned truck stop in a quiet southwestern corner of the city. Their answer? To feed them arguably the best sandwiches in town. Drawing on their Lebanese mother's cooking traditions, the brothers serve award-winning cheesesteaks, po'boys and shawarma wraps that keep locals and visitors coming back in their droves. Cliff Bells: Restored to its art deco glory in 2006, replete with brass-trimmed mahogany and green-velvet walls, Cliff Bells isn't just Detroit's number one jazz bar — it's also a destination for elevated dining. Expertly crafted dishes like seared scallops and lobster macaroni are served here alongside nightly live music performances. Selden Standard: This nationally acclaimed restaurant uses ingredients from local farmers for its small plates. The seasonal menu can include beetroot elotes (a Mexican street-food staple, traditionally featuring corn on the cob) and grilled Michigan country rib with kohlrabi, apple and coriander vinaigrette. 'Carl the Human jukebox' of Carl & Company performs at Cafe D'Mongo's Speakeasy, a beloved Detroit institution owned by local legend, Larry Mongo. After hours The Vinyl Society: Before there was Motown, there was jazz and blues. Throughout the early 20th century, nightclubs in Detroit's Paradise Valley district echoed with the rhythms of musicians like Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington. The Vinyl Society is a Black-owned bar and lounge that pays homage to the heyday of Paradise Valley with live music and a creative craft cocktail menu. The Belt: Detroit-based art gallery Library Street Collective transformed this service alley in a former downtown garment district into a vibrant art space home to several fun bars whose seated areas spill out into the street. The Skip's open-air cocktail bar is a lively place to drink in the colourful murals; Standby has more of a speakeasy feel. Cafe D'Mongo's Speakeasy: Old-school jazz and stirring soul music shake the walls of this cosy nightclub, adorned with a jumble of vintage instruments and photographs that serve as a scrapbook of Detroit's rich musical history. Pop in on any given evening and don't be surprised to see owner and local legend Larry Mongo himself, now in his mid-70s, holding court with all the charm that's made his bar a beloved Detroit institution. Getting there & around Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic codeshare on a direct route to Detroit from Heathrow. Several other carriers offer indirect flights. Average flight time: Detroit is walkable; the city has a comprehensive bus network; and the elevated People Mover train is a scenic (and free) way to nip around Detroit's Business District. The new QLine streetcar system is also free, connecting downtown Detroit with Midtown. Some attractions like the Henry Ford complex are a little further afield, but Detroit is also a very drivable city with relatively low levels of traffic — unless one of the local sports teams is playing. When to go In summer (June to August), Detroit can get hot and humid, with temperatures up to 30C. Days can be pleasant in autumn (September to November) and temperatures can still hit the high teens to low 20s. In winter (December to February), temperatures range from 2C to -6C, and snow is common. Spring (March to May) is mild with occasional showers, and its arrival is marked by March's annual Marche du Nain Rouge — a beloved parade where revellers attempt to ward off the mythical Nain Rouge (Red Dwarf) who's believed to be responsible for the city's historic misfortunes. More info The Last Days of Detroit, Mark Binelli. £10.99 Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul, Stuart Cosgrove. £14.99 How to do it: Original Travel offers a customisable nine-day Art, Architecture and Music in the Midwest tour, exploring Detroit and Cleveland, from £2,430 per person, including flights, meals and activities. This article was created with the support of Visit Detroit. Published in the June 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK). To subscribe to National Geographic Traveller (UK) magazine click here. (Available in select countries only).
New York Times
12-06-2025
- General
- New York Times
A Train Station Taught Me What Education Is For
On a recent trip to Detroit (my first, somehow) I was pressed for time, so I skipped the Detroit Institute of Arts and the aquarium and headed to Michigan Central Station, a shining jewel of the city's resurrection. It was so beautiful that I felt I might almost have a heart attack. The experience left me thinking not just about the grandeur of the building and the tremendous labor that brought it back to life but about what education should be — and should not be. Opened in 1913, the station was a grand depot, a sibling of New York City's Grand Central designed by the same firm, with an office building on top of it as had once been proposed in New York. Michigan Central was a wonder in its day, but after World War II, rail travel lost ground to airplanes and cars. By the 1970s the building was little but a half-closed Amtrak stop, and in 1988 it was shuttered. The once magnificent structure decayed into a crumbling husk, flooded on its lower levels, plundered for parts, sprayed with graffiti, with windows shattered and gone. Its devastation was, in its way, almost as awesome as what it once had been, much like the Titanic as it looks now, at the bottom of the ocean. Over the past seven years, however, Michigan Central Station was painstakingly restored, through a mix of the oldest craft techniques and the latest digital technology. Three thousand people rebuilt everything from the massive structural elements to the tiniest aesthetic details, recreating clocks, moldings and décor from old photos and scraps recovered from the wreckage. The work was so extensive and so creative that the station even houses a museum to explain how it was all done. (Restorers: Regarding that message you found in a bottle lodged in a wall, are you sure the word you consider illegible is not just 'ceiling'?) I stepped into the station and time stopped. The vaulted ceilings, the big lovely windows designed to keep things cool in an era before air-conditioning, the elegant curve of the arches, the hints of Greco-Roman frivolity — all just wondrous. (And the linguist part of me enjoyed seeing how words on old signs that we now keep together were separate: suit cases, sight-seeing, foot ball.) Detroit is full of this kind of beauty, so abundant you can walk by it a few times without even noticing. That's what I did with the David Stott Building, an Art Deco skyscraper towering over the corner of Griswold and State Streets, until I looked up and thought, ouch, how pretty! I stood on that corner snapping pictures and wondering how architects make such breathtaking things. I had a similar feeling once in Washington when I happened to walk by the Kennedy-Warren apartment building. I was so floored by its doughty sprawl, nestled splendidly into the woodsy slope behind it, that my heart actually beat faster. I sat on a nearby bench for a good 20 minutes just agape. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Axios
22-05-2025
- Business
- Axios
DIA tickets are cheaper than other cities' museums
The $20 ticket price for the Detroit Institute of Arts is on the affordable side when compared to museums in other big cities. The big picture: The Denver Art Museum quietly raised prices by more than 20%, our colleagues at Axios Denver noticed this month. Denver's price hike puts it in line with other big-city museums charging more than $20 for admission. Zoom in: Detroiters and other residents of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties get free admission to the DIA by showing their ID. The access comes in exchange for a property tax millage that's been in place since 2012 to fund the museum. General admission for adults outside the tri-county area is $20. Discounts are available for college students, older adults and those between 6–17. Children 5 and under get in free. Context: The DIA's most recent price increase was last July, when general admission prices went from $18 to $20, Adam Pattison, the museum's director of visitor experience, tells Axios.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
DIA to take its final, viral '7 Mile + Livernois' dance party outside this weekend
A simple dance party at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) turned into Detroit's biggest event of the winter season. When word got out, a follow-up event in March drew record numbers. This weekend, one final bash is taking place – and it's so big that they're taking it outside. On Friday, May 9, another dance party will be held on the DIA museum grounds from 6:30-9:30 p.m. to commemorate the closing of Detroit artist Tiff Massey's historic '7 Mile + Livernois' exhibition. Detroit-based DJs KESSWA and Donavan Glover will provide sounds for the evening. '7 Mile + Livernois' is an installation featuring sculptures commissioned by the DIA and is a vibrant, inclusive peek into Detroit's artistic ecosystem. February's dance party, in association with Massey's show, drew over 1,700 attendees to the DIA in a massive flex of multigenerational, cross-cultural community support. 'It was honestly the most incredible crowd I've ever seen at an art museum anywhere,' Katie Pfohl, DIA Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, said ahead of the March event. 'The whole city turned out for the set. It was just … it was amazing. I moved here from New Orleans, and so I've worked with a lot of musicians as artists in my own curatorial past. Tiff is also so connected to the city's music scene, and as we were talking about programming for the show, it just seemed like such a natural fit, for an exhibition that is really about celebrating the city's culture of creative expression, to invite musicians from the city to activate the museum. 'It's an incredibly fun, powerful event, but there's also such an interesting throughline in the evolution of some of the city's musical forms. The histories of the automotive industry and factories, music production, and artists like Tiff working with metalsmithing, they feel to me like an intrinsic part of the show, not just a program that we're doing on the side. It's an intrinsic part of Tiff's vision for the project, and her aspiration to really showcase and celebrate the city's creative work.' 'It's one thing to put on an exhibition,' said Pfohl, 'and it's something else to really invite people in to have a conversation with it. People were there, dancing in Rivera Court, but they were also seeing the exhibition and talking with their friends about it and having an incredible time. For me, it's really feeling the art merge with the music to activate a whole vibe. I'm not trying to get all cheesy about it, but it was really special the last time, and I just can't wait to feel that energy in the museum again.' The energy was definitely felt again: More than 2,500 revelers showed up for the March party, with lines stretching out the museum's front doors, down the steps, across the lawn, and all the way out to the street as people waited in freezing rain and snow to get in on the action. Popular now: 12-year-old Oxford girl stuns in school shooting drama at Detroit Public Theatre DIA board vice chair Marsha Battle Philpot expressed awe and gratitude at the size and vibe of the crowd in March. "I was unprepared for the extraordinary outpouring of people that visited not just the exhibit," she said, "but came to the DIA, so many of them for the very first time. We have a generation or even two here in Detroit, in particular, that had not had the advantage of doing field trips to the DIA because of the budget issues in the school systems. For many, this was their first foray in here, and that was astonishing to see their wonderful reactions. "The crowd itself was overwhelming. It was shoulder to shoulder, and it was such a wonderful thing. I thought that Diego Rivera might be smiling down at us to see this many human beings congregated beneath his beautiful work in the courtyard. I think that was a real measure of how Tiff's work has impacted the museum, not just because of the work itself, but what she has brought to bear in engaging the community here with the DIA, which has been really extraordinary." DIA chief operating officer Elliott Broom said the museum is 'thrilled' with the exhibition and all the interest generated around it. 'The exhibition has surpassed 200,000 in attendance, which is quite a feat for our museum,' said Broom, 'and the feedback from the visitors has been overwhelmingly positive. To celebrate the close of the exhibition, we really wanted to do something special, and so – weather dependent – we're going to move the party outside onto the front plaza of the museum. That is something that we have only reserved in the past for Fash Bash. 'The idea is that the guests will be able to dance on the plaza, and we'll have, of course, bars set up if people want to drink, and some light snacks will be available for purchase. But the aim is to do this closing party in a very special way, outside, in open air, which also gives us a chance to welcome a few more visitors. We're guesstimating that we will hit that 2,500 mark, but I wouldn't be surprised if we crest 3,000.' Broom said that, in addition to the outdoor party, Kresge Court will be open with music and an extra bar to serve overflow or host guests seeking a break from dancing. The museum, he said, also has a rain plan that moves the party back indoors. 'It's been incredible to see momentum build around this show, right up through its finish on May 11,' Pfohl told the Free Press this week. 'Tiff's work has truly brought the city into the museum, creating a citywide celebration of Detroit and its story that will continue to shape the DIA long after this exhibition closes.' Admission to Friday's 6:30 p.m. party is free with museum general admission at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave. General museum admission is free for residents of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. Non-resident entry is $20 for adults, $10 for seniors and college students, and $8 for children ages 6 – 17. At press time, advanced registration for the event was at capacity. For more information, visit Contact Free Press arts and culture reporter Duante Beddingfield at dbeddingfield@ This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Last DIA dance party to be held outdoors this weekend
Telegraph
02-05-2025
- Telegraph
Fantastic travel ideas for a family getaway
Where should you go on holiday? With quite literally a world of choice out there, we've handpicked some dreamy destinations to ignite your wanderlust. Make your holiday a highlight reel in Detroit Detroit, home of America's legendary car industry, is the perfect place to set off on a great American road trip. Whether you're into music, art, sports or the great outdoors, this dynamic cultural hub has something for every age and interest. Take a deep dive into Motown's rich musical tapestry or connect with today's vibrant artist communities, discover the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) or hang out in the revitalised downtown core. Catch a game, as all four major American sports are represented here, or relax in nature on romantic Belle Isle or beside placid Lake St Clair. With elegant accommodations that go above and beyond when it comes to dining, Detroit blends contemporary flair with classic Midwestern hospitality. 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