I hope and pray the DIA collection stays intact and where it is. But, when you own things and owe people money, it is reasonable, if awful, to be expected to sell your things to pay those debts. As I wrote here before, if you as an individual are mortgaged beyond your ability to pay, you do not have a legal right to deem your family heirlooms off-limits to your creditors. If some person or entity owed me money, especially a huge amount of money, I would go to court to liquidate all possible assets to get paid. Doubly so if I had a legal responsibility to guard other people's assets. The horrible action here is not by those trying to collect the money owed; it is by those who chalked up the debt in the first place, and that specifically includes the voters who willfully elected demonstrably irresponsible people to office. I hope Detroit didn't screw Detroit out of a first rate art museum.