In conjunction with the exhibition Van Gogh in America, the Detroit Institute of Arts is hosting two scholarly panel discussions on January 12, 2023.

The second session, which will take place in the DIA’s Lecture Hall and simultaneously livestreamed (on YouTube and Facebook), will discuss the myths surrounding Van Gogh’s persona and his body of work that pervade global popular culture.

This panel discussion featuring Nienke Bakker, Senior Curator, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, as well as Louis van Tilborgh and Teio Meedendorp, both Senior Researchers at the Van Gogh Museum, will discuss some of the many myths that surround Van Gogh and how studies of the posthumous reception of the artist worldwide can help to shed light on the creation and perpetuation of some of these myths.

This discussion will be moderated by DIA curators Jill Shaw (Head, The James Pearson Duffy Department of Modern and Contemporary Art and Rebecca A. Boylan and Thomas W. Sidlik Curator of European Art, 1850–1970) and Dorota Chudzicka (Assistant Curator of Modern European Art).

In conjunction with the exhibition Van Gogh in America, the Detroit Institute of Arts is hosting two scholarly panel discussions on January 12, 2023. The first session, which will be all virtual, will explore the reception of Van Gogh and his art and the history of Van Gogh’s legacy across various geographies: in Holland, Germany, France, Great Britain, United States, and Japan.

Speakers include:

• Chris Stolwijk, General Director RKD–Netherlands Institute for Art History / Professor of History of Dutch Art in an International Context, 1800–1940, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Alexander Eiling, Head of Modern Art, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
• Bregje Gerritse, Researcher, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
• Carol Jacobi, Curator of British Art 1850–1915, Tate Britain, London
• Jill Shaw, Head, The James Pearson Duffy Department of Modern and Contemporary Art and Rebecca A. Boylan and Thomas W. Sidlik Curator of European Art, 1850–1970, Detroit Institute of Arts
• Tsukasa Kōdera, Professor of Western Art History, Osaka University

Moderator: Dorota Chudzicka, Assistant Curator of Modern European Art, Detroit Institute of Arts
 

Using scissors and colorful cardstock, make a unique freestanding geometric sculpture.

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience is necessary. All supplies provided. For ages 6 - Adult (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult). Capacity is limited.

Use your own initials and some colorful art materials to create a unique work of art to take home.

Quilting has a rich and varied history throughout the world, with its earliest roots in ancient Egypt. Explore different quilt patterns, then see if you can create one of your own.

USA/1921—directed by Charles Chaplin | 53 minutes

Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he made The Kid, his first full-length feature. In it, he stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (Jackie Coogan) he's rescued from the streets.

Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.” 

The Kid will be presented with a live piano score by David Drazin.

Vincent van Gogh was a master of capturing the people and places that shaped him into the artist we all think we know. The letters of Van Gogh offer further insights into the man behind the paint. As in his paintings, a strong sense of self, scene, situation, and setting emerge in his letters.

In this writing workshop offered in conjunction with the exhibition Van Gogh in America, we will look closely at several of these letters to see the writer behind the artist and be inspired to paint with words the world as we know it. 

Peter Markus is the Senior Writer with InsideOut Literary Arts. Markus is the author of a number of books of fiction, among them We Make Mud and The Fish and the Not Fish, which was selected as a Notable Michigan Book in 2015. Markus's most recent book is the collection of poems, When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds, which explores the death of his father and how this experience shaped Markus to see the world through sharper eyes.
 

Katie Yamasaki’s newest picture book, Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather’s American Journey, celebrates the life of her grandfather, the acclaimed Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki. Please join Katie for a joyful and reflective afternoon of storytelling and art-making for friends and families of all ages. 

In celebration of the opening of a new performance space in Midtown Detroit’s Carr Center, the DIA will participate in New Standards Jazz Crawl, a series of performances by women composers curated by Terri Lyne Carrington.

When Grammy-nominated recording artist, composer, and bandleader Tia Fuller picks up her saxophone, amazing things happen. Blending technical brilliance, melodic creativity, and the performing precision drawn from both her academic and stage experience, Fuller is a force within the worlds of jazz, pop and R&B, and balances the roles of a touring and recording artist with that of a full-time professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

An accomplished solo artist, she has recorded five full-length projects with her quartet, and her most recent album Diamond Cut, produced by Terri Lyne Carrington, received a Grammy nomination in the Best Instrumental Jazz category.  Fuller can be seen touring regularly with several bands. She has appeared with Carrington to perform her Grammy-winning Mosaic Project and Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue; served as assistant musical director for Esperanza Spalding’s Radio Music Society tour, and recorded and toured with Dianne Reeves for her Grammy-winning Beautiful Life album.