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  • Adding Green Space to MoMA With Tropical Terrariums
    New York Times, December 2010

    “We are not keen on all kinds of modern art, but this is brilliant,” said Laura Casado, a visitor from Valladolid, Spain, who was on vacation with her husband, Javier. On Monday afternoon, while Mr. Casado was busy photographing the terrariums, Ms. Casado explained, “My husband especially loves things that grow.”

    These hybrids of art and urban-dweller’s garden make up the small exhibition “Nocturne of the Limax maximus,” running through Feb. 28. They come from the New York artist and landscape designer Paula Hayes, who has been blogging about the project on MoMA’s Web site, moma.org.

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  • The DIA Inside/Out Exhibit comes to a close
    Little Designs, November 2010

    ...And I was grinning broadly as I headed up Main Street. When I quickly pulled up short to stare at an unexpected sight. A Fredrick Edwin Church painting? Hung against a brick wall? As I stared, a gentleman briskly walked by. “Isn’t that delightful?!” Yes, indeed it was. But what was going on?...

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  • Inside out: Gallery features replica of DIA painting

    Biddle Gallery is taking artwork to the streets.

    A framed reproduction of Caravaggio’s “The Conversion of the Magdalen,” now hangs on one of the Wyandotte gallery’s outside walls as part of the Detroit Institute of Art’s “Inside/Out” exhibition for its 125th anniversary...The DIA approached the city of Wyandotte about locating a painting there, and Biddle Gallery was deemed the perfect spot.

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  • Art on the block

    METRO DETROIT — This weekend, shoppers can support a local retailer along with the Detroit Institute of Arts. A percentage of net sales Oct. 22-23 at Wayne and Oakland County Borders stores — including the Grosse Pointe City store — will go to the DIA during Benefit Days[...]The Benefit Days are being held in conjunction with the DIA’s Inside/Out project, in which 40 high-quality digital reproductions of DIA masterpieces have been installed at spots throughout the metro region[...]

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  • Detroit Institute of Arts Participates in High-Tech Treasure Hunting Game
    artdaily.org, September 2010

    DETROIT, MI.- In conjunction with the Detroit Institute of Arts’ (DIA) Inside|Out project, the DIA has launched a high-tech treasure hunting game on www.geocaching.com. To play the game, called Geocaching, players use a GPS device to locate containers hidden outdoors, called geocaches, and then share the experience online.

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  • Museum Brings Its Art Outdoors Around Detroit Area

    DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit Institute of Arts is putting up ornately framed reproductions of some of its most significant paintings on the streets of southeast Michigan as part of a celebration of its 125th anniversary.

    The life-sized digital copies look as if they've been pulled from the museum's walls and will be on display through November.

    "We hope people will be surprised and pleased when they see them," museum Director Graham W.J. Beal said in a statement.

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  • DIA's outdoor replicas draw attention around Metro Detroit

    Catherine Hansen of Warren leans in for a better look at the elaborately framed masterwork. It's a painting by the 18th-century French artist Georges Seurat, mounted on posts at Rivard Plaza on Detroit's RiverWalk.

    "Won't it get damaged out here?" Hansen wonders aloud, and gingerly reaches forward to touch "View of Le Crotoy from Upstream," which is part of the Detroit Institute of Arts' permanent collection.

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  • Noir Leather exhibits copy of masterpiece from DIA

    ROYAL OAK — Noir Leather pushes the limits with its window displays of fetish-fashion mannequins, bondage gear products and “keep it kinky” promotions.

    Passersby during Arts, Beats & Eats may be shocked again at the overtly sexual wall art — shocked that it is a replica of an oil painting by Henry Fuseli that debuted at the Royal Academy of London in 1782.

    “It’s a classic,” said Kathleen Fegley, co-owner of the store at 124 W. Fourth St., where the painting called “The Nightmare” is on display as part of the 125th anniversary celebration of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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  • Detroit Institute of Arts Is Taking It to the Streets
    artdaily.org, September 2010

    DETROIT, MI.- As part of its 125th anniversary celebration, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), in partnership with SM/ART Editions, presents Inside | Out, which takes 40 framed, life-size digital reproductions of art from its collection to the streets and parks of Wayne, Macomb, Oakland and Washtenaw counties.

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  • Terrarium Artist Moves Into Tableware
    New York Times, May 2010

    Paula Hayes, the artist and gardener who creates fantastical environments like hand-blown terrariums, blobby silicone planters and otherworldly crystal-strewn landscapes for art world heavies, is now making objects for the rest of us. Her handmade tableware is sculptural and tactile and comes in the biomorphic shapes that are her signature: a deep blue wineglass is like a hobbit’s boot ($140); a glass plate looks like a jellyfish ($575); a cranberry-red water glass could be a vibrating bean ($160).

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