The threat to sell off the works in the Detroit Institute of Arts - World Socialist Web Site
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Vendre les oeuvres du musée de Détroit pour couvrir la dette municipale (suite)
The threat to sell off the works in the Detroit Institute of Arts
29 May 2013
The threat by Detroit’s unelected financial tsar, Kevyn Orr, to sell off the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, or major pieces from it, to help pay the city’s creditors has provoked widespread anger and revulsion.
The DIA is a beautiful museum, from its 1920s’ beaux-arts building to the breathtaking courtyard of Diego Rivera murals and its collection of more than 65,000 works. It is a source of legitimate pride to Detroit’s population.