Laura Berman's bringing some reality -- a tiny bit, but more than ever before -- to the pages of the Detroit News: "
Even today, there's a presumption that the museum's art and artifacts embody the city's aspirations to high ideals and the hope for a better future. But in an extreme fiscal crisis, the museum's fate may also decide a philosophical contest between the city's soul and its need for dollars and cents."

If this gets into bankruptcy court, it's not a philosophical contest, it's a legal contest... and there, creditors trump curators every time. Here's hoping someone in the Bing Administration can get the City of Detroit to use its assets to save its assets before a bankruptcy judge shows Dave Bing and Kirk Lewis just how much their plans matter when they're out of cash and have bills to pay.


http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...ON03/202130322