In another aside, Gistok, the big art importers these days are in the Middle East, and the royal family of Qatar just set a new world record for art prices with the private purchase of one of Cezanne's Card Players series for over $250 million. If Detroit should happen to need cash for one reason or another, its DIA collection [[seven Cezanne's listed on its website!) could certainly bring in plenty. Here's hoping Detroit manages to have its Monet and money too -- public art doing double duty -- rather than choosing the single duty of having its Monet and no money [[with attendant public safety layoffs and closings) or the single duty of having its money and no Monet [[with attendant cultural dimunition).

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