Opinion
As the Detroit Institue of Arts (DIA) continues its long slide to Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's butcher block, several issues have come to light regarding the fate of its artwork and the financial context of the Detroit bankruptcy.
Opinion
OAKLAND, Calif. — Amidst news of its filing for bankruptcy, Detroit is becoming ingrained in the popular imagination as a city fallen from grace. That it's also a rapidly emerging art and technology hub is lesser known.
News
In a statement posted to their website late yesterday, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) has affirmed its support of its host city's Chapter 9 bankruptcy proceeding.
Art
Not long ago, artist Jerry Vile placed a giant Crisco can in front of the "Monument to Joe Louis," a giant sculpture of a fist in downtown Detroit, as a lewd but hilarious and spot-on commentary on the city's bankruptcy. Local media glommed onto the stunt immediately: it was a welcome break from the
Art
Last night, a suburban board in Detroit signaled its intent to pass a resolution discontinuing the collection of the special tax voted in to support the Detroit Institute of Arts should the institution's art or assets be liquidated. There remains a great deal of anxiety over whether or not Detroit w
Art
CHICAGO — Much like the city of Detroit’s epic economic saga, this story took me on a wild goose chase. I'm an art journalist reporting on Detroit from Chicago — or, if you would prefer, the Motor City from the Windy City — and that seems odd. The media craze around Detroit just won’t quit, and Chic
Art
When Michigan governor Rick Snyder recently affirmed that Detroit's $650 million hockey stadium, to be financed with a mix of $450 million in state bonds and private moneys, won't be derailed by the city's economic woes, the stark contrast with the fate of the city's beleaguered art museum could not
Opinion
Jerry Vile's guerrilla addition to Detroit's "Monument to Joe Louis" (aka The Fist) is his tongue-in-cheek way of preparing the citizens of his beloved city to brace themselves …
Opinion
Would New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl suggest that Greece sell the Parthenon to pay its crippling national debt?
News
The battle over the future of the Detroit Institute of Arts' collection is still only a theoretical one, but that hasn't stopped high-profile people throughout the state from taking sides. The latest entrant into the fray is Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, who says the art cannot be sold to
Art
The Heidelberg Project was started as a way to transform the depressing decay of an east Detroit neighborhood, but it has since experienced its own set of devastations. In both 1991 and 1999, parts of it were demolished, and just this past month there was a fire that wrecked its oldest house. Now th
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Opinion
On May 24 the news broke that Detroit's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, was considering whether the city could or should sell off the art collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to help pay back its debts. The reactions pretty much range from "this is a bad idea" to "this is a terrible idea.