Should Detroit Sell Its Art?
"The fiscal apocalypse that is Detroit has spun off a collateral storm in the art world with a suggestion that salvific funds [...] could be raised by selling treasures of the Detroit Institute of Arts, one of America’s best encyclopedic museums. Having been asked my opinion as an art-lover [...] I have two answers. Here’s the short one: sell."
"The fiscal apocalypse that is Detroit has spun off a collateral storm in the art world with a suggestion that salvific funds—an estimate of two billion dollars is much bandied—could be raised by selling treasures of the Detroit Institute of Arts, one of America’s best encyclopedic museums. Having been asked my opinion as an art-lover—and, incidentally, a citizen, though not of Detroit—I have two answers. Here’s the short one: sell. The long one, which follows, ends in the same place, only garlanded with regrets."
Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 24 July 2013
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/07/sell-your-art-detroit.html
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