Hundreds of Detroit-area workers, students, retirees and artists attended a rally called by the Socialist Equality Party and International Youth and Students for Social Equality to fight the threats from Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to sell off art from the Detroit Institute of Arts.
New Met Opera contract sets precedent for further givebacks
An all-night bargaining session produced a four-year deal based on “equality of sacrifice.”
Fred Mazelis•
New analysis of the Detroit Institute of Arts responds to creditors and unions
A leading New York art advisory firm issued a report July 8 on the value of the collection at the DIA and the feasibility of a sale of that artwork, as well as its effect on the art market.
David Walsh•
Bankruptcy court approves new appraisal of Detroit Institute of Arts collection
Efforts to sell the art collection outright continue despite the much-touted “Grand Bargain”
Thomas Gaist•
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit’s creditors, the investment bankers, the unions, academia and identity politics
A group of Detroit’s creditors has been dangling the DIA’s irreplaceable artwork in front of various hedge funds, private equity firms, billionaire collectors and auction houses.
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