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Home to a variety of concerts, auto shows and sports teams for more than 40 years, Cobo Center is situated in downtown Detroit. Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center and the adjacent Cobo Arena are named for Albert E. Cobo, mayor of Detroit from 1950 to 1957.

Designed by Gino Rossetti, both the arena and conference center opened in 1960. In
1989, the Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center underwent a significant
expansion and currently holds 700,000 square feet (65,030 m²) of exhibition space.

Each
January, Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center hosts the North American
International Auto Show or NAIAS. The Conference/Exhibition Center,
along with Cobo Arena and the adjacent Joe Louis Area, are physically
linked to all downtown Detroit hotels and entertainment districts by
the Detroit People Mover, the only elevated railway system of its kind
in the United States.

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Located in the heart of Detroit’s Cultural Center and founded in 1885,
the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) began its life on Jefferson Avenue
in Detroit, but due to its rapidly expanding collection, moved to a
larger site in 1927. The Beaux-Arts building, designed by Paul Cret,
was referred to as “the temple of art.” Over the years, expansion and
renovations created what is today one of the largest, most significant
collections in the United States, ranging from prehistory through the
21st century.

The intensive European contacts of William
Valentiner, one of the museum’s early directors, along with support
from generous patrons, enabled him to acquire many important works that
established the framework of today’s collections. Some of his most
notable collections include Mexican artist Diego Rivera’s Detroit
Industry frescoe cycle, considered Diego’s most important work in the
U.S., as well as Vincent van Gogh’s Self Portrait, the first van Gogh
painting to enter a U.S. museum collection.

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