Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit Institute of Arts
5200 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202
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The Detroit Institute of Arts is the fifth-largest fine arts museum in the United States with holdings of over 60,000 works. More than one hundred galleries survey the art of world cultures from ancient to modern.  Important works at the DIA include James Abbot McNeil Whistler's "Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket", a dragon from the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Wedding Dance", and Giovanni Bellini's "Madonna and Child".  Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry fresco forms the center of the museum. "The Nut Gatherers" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau is one of the most popular paintings in the collection.

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