Sunday October 1, 2000 - Detroit Free Press

New Museum To Open

By Keri Guten Cohen | Free Press Special Writer

Jef Bourgeau’s Museum of New Art opens its first show Friday at 19 N. Saginaw. "Critical Eyes" is an exhibition of works selected from the private collections of three Detroit-area art curators and writers: Dennis Nawrocki, Hope Palmer and Tom Wojtas. The pieces range from edgy industrial-based work to classical, figurative and abstract pieces.

Bourgeau is best-known to local audiences as the artist whose controversial installation, "Art Until Now," was shuttered by the Detroit Institute of Arts last November. He says he sees MONA as a constantly evolving space dedicated to the practice of contemporary art through film, video, lecture, symposium and exhibitions, with a mandate of increasing the understanding and development of new art.