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Exploring the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum: Curves, Culture, and Creativity in Lansing

A visitor recounts their experience at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum on the Michigan State University campus in Lansing, Michigan. The article describes the museum's striking architecture designed by Zaha Hadid, noting its curved, geometric form and use of glass and light. Inside, the visitor highlights several current exhibitions: "Nabil Kanso: Echoes of War" (on view through June 29, 2025), "Farmland" (through July 27, 2025), and the 2025 MFA Exhibition featuring works by graduating students Claire E. Heiney, Morgan Reneé Hill, and Megan Weaver. The author reflects on the emotional impact of the art and the educational value of the visit.

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Artist Jan Tichy plans to plunge MSU's Broad Art Museum into darkness

Artist Jan Tichy has created a major exhibition titled "Darkness" at the Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, opening January 30, 2026, and running through late July. The exhibition transforms the museum's main floor galleries by blacking out Zaha Hadid's iconic angular windows and entrances, using projections and modulated lights to simulate a 24-hour day-night cycle. Tichy, who previously worked with the museum on a Flint water crisis project in 2017, collaborated with MSU researchers—including the Department of Entomology—to create works inspired by academic studies, such as photographic prints made from insects collected on the museum grounds over a year.