Detroit's Motown Museum has mounted their first major exhibit saluting the late-Marvin Gaye.
Opening last Friday and running through at least September, the exhibit features recordings, album covers, awards, costumes and other memorabilia associated with the soul master including a few pieces loaned by his ex-wife, Janice Gaye. She told Paste Magazine "I would just like for people to see his whole body of work. Socially conscious, sexually conscious, whatever it happens to be. It’s all Marvin. It all came from that one mind."
Gaye recorded many of his hits at the house on Detroit's West Grand Boulevard that housed the company in its heyday and now serves as the museum. CEO Audley Smith said in a statement "This exhibit continues the Museum’s goal of highlighting all of the wonderful talent that made the Motown Sound the sound of young America."
The exhibit follows one for the Jackson 5 and is designed by museum curator Lina Stephens. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 AM to 6 PM and costs $10 for adults, $8 for seniors over 62 and children age 5 to 12 and is free for children 4 and under.
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