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# Stephen Colbert Chimes in About Detroit Museum Sell-Off Fears
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/stephen-colbert-chimes-in-about-detroit-museum-sell-off-fears/
- Published: 2013-07-26T17:11:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:17:58.000Z
- Description: The Colbert Report tackles the bankruptcy of Detroit, and the irony that Detroit could possibly sell off Diego Rivera's "Detroit Industry" mural, which depicts a socialist worker's utopia.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Colbert Report, Detroit Institute of Arts, Stephen Colbert, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

The *Colbert Report* tackles the bankruptcy of Detroit, and the irony that Detroit could possibly sell off Diego Rivera’s “Detroit Industry” mural, which depicts a socialist workers’ utopia. “You don’t need that much culture any more,” Colbert jokes with *The Detroit Free Press*‘ Stephen Henderson.