Mocad at night with a new piece by Martin Creed reading "everything is going to be alright"

MOCAD is housed in a building, a converted former auto dealership designed by architect Andrew Zago. The architecture is intentionally raw and unfinished, and is intended to reflect the scars of urban blight which surround it.http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/arts/design/30urba.html

MOCAD presented its first exhibition "Meditations in an Emergency" on October 28th, 2006. It was curated by Klaus Kertess, and included work by Tabaimo, Kara Walker, Nari Ward, among others. The second exhibition which ran concurrently was "Shrinking cities" a largely conceptual exhibition dealing with population loss and shifting urban concentrations all over the world, with Detroit being a main focus of the exhibition. Their third exhibition, which ran until July 2007 was titled "Stuff: The International Collection of Burt Aaron." It was an exhibit of the personal collection of renowned Michigan collector Burt Aaron.

References

• Ouroussoff, Nicolai. "Seeing the Seediness, and Celebrating It" http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/arts/design/30urba.html", The New York Times, 2006-11-30. Retrieved on January 10, 2007.

External links

• Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
• Video review of the Museum