Interview: MOCAD’s Co-Directors On What a Museum Owes a Changing City

"Olayami Dabls: Detroit Cosmologies," on view at MOCAD through July 12, 2026.

An installation view shows a museum visitor in a bright red patterned coat looking at small framed artworks and wall text in a gallery with a brick floor.

Lynne and Madison-Patton describe this reopening not as a return to what MOCAD once was, but as an expansion of access, collaboration and possibility for what a contemporary art museum can be.

Interview: MOCAD’s Co-Directors On What a Museum Owes a Changing City