In Detroit bankruptcy, what will happen to DIA?

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Because the DIA collections were built with private donations [[see DIA on Wikipedia to learn who and what), it seems ethically wrong for the City and its advocates to argue that the City built up the DIA and can destroy it for the sake of paying for public safety. The donors of the art certainly never thought that Detroit would sell off its irreplaceable patrimony for the sake of a few more months and years of the miserable existance we have now.

You should realize that Detroit collection comes largely from a time when works could be purchased. The newer museums in the south and on the west coast are hungry for items such as those in the DIA because most of the old masters and impressionist work is unavailable to them, not purchaseable and potential donors also don't have the items in their possession. I know that the walton Family Foundation will step right in, buy our patrimony in a fire sale and move it all to Bentonville AR to their new museum in the sticks. And the future of our city will be even poorer and more embarrassing.

So, if Detroit sells it - Gone With the Wind and never to be seen here again in any number of lifetimes.

Can you tell that I am so discouraged. My hometown ravaged and pillaged and corrupted and gone. But okay. Everything I knew and loved about Detroit is pretty much gone already. Let that go, too.