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Australia: National Gallery of Victoria patrons denounce selloff of Detroit masterpieces - World Socialist Web Site

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Australia: National Gallery of Victoria patrons denounce selloff of Detroit masterpieces

By our reporters
3 January 2014

World Socialist Web Site reporters recently spoke with people outside the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne about plans by the unelected financial manager of Detroit, Kevin Orr, to sell off part of the Detroit Institute of Arts priceless art collection in order to pay the American city’s wealthy bondholders.

Founded in 1861, the NGV is Australia’s oldest art gallery, maintaining a collection of 68,000 works of art, including pieces by major international figures such as Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, Mark Rothko, William Blake and many others. The reporting team distributed WSWS articles to patrons of the gallery, located in Melbourne’s arts precinct.

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Détroit, l’agonie qui n’en finit pas : voilà le truc auquel on avait pas pensé : vendre la collection d’art pour régler les dettes de la ville. ça ressemble à la fin de l’humanité.

Emergency financial manager considers selling off Detroit Institute of Arts collection

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Emergency financial manager considers selling off Detroit Institute of Arts collection

By Bryan Dyne
25 May 2013
The Woodward Avenue façade of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit’s unelected emergency financial manager, Kevyn Orr, has asked for an appraisal of the collection held by the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to determine whether the city could sell off the art works to help pay off Detroit’s $15 billion in long-term debt.

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The managed bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler: A model for the assault on Detroit - World Socialist Web Site

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The managed bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler: A model for the assault on Detroit
By Jerry White
19 March 2013

With Michigan governor Rick Snyder’s appointment of a financial manager in Detroit, the working class in the city is about to be subjected to a financial dictatorship modeled on the savage wage and benefit cuts imposed by the Obama administration during its forced bankruptcy and restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009. Like the auto workers, the city’s public sector workers and residents will be forced to sacrifice their jobs, pensions and the needs of their families to pay for a financial crisis they did not create.

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