Less than 8% of DIA's art is on display
Less than 8% of the DIA art is on display.
For those that want the DIA to be preserved, over 92% of it could be used without changing a single item on display.
“Museum officials confirmed Friday that Artvest Partners in New York has been hired to put a price tag on the museum’s 66,000-object collection, of which about 5,000 pieces are on display.”
Detroitnews.com, June 13, 2014
New York appraisers to evaluate entire DIA collection
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...#ixzz34rLpTlLa
Detroit City Council seconds transfer of DIA art to charitable trust
The Detroit City Council this morning voted for the second time this month to endorse the transfer of art and other assets at the city-owned Detroit Institute of Arts to a charitable trust as part of a proposal to protect the art from being sold off in the city’s bankruptcy case.
The council’s second-ranking member, George Cushingberry Jr., said federal mediators involved in the bankruptcy case determined the council’s first resolution — passed on June 5 — was not satisfactory.
The first resolution indicated that the council supported the art transfer. The resolution passed today reads that the city council approves the transfer. The first resolution also referenced some additional questions the council had about the transfer, corporation counsel Butch Hollowell said today.
“This is a final and full-throated approval of the transfer of assets,” Hollowell said after the council’s unanimous vote.
http://www.freep.com/article/2014061...ouncil-DIA-art
Or... we could keep on discussing selling the art and beating the dead horse?
Jewels and Gems at the Detroit Institute of Art
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I took a tour in Chattanooga, Tennessee today. The tour guide was naming off all the things around town to do including the art museum and he said that it was a great museum, but "nothing like the one in Detroit".
It was cool to see something that we're known for so far away from home.
I was in an art class @ San Diego State University and several works of art at the DIA were part of the lecture.