The Detroit Institute of Arts came close to selling some of its treasures when the city went bankrupt in 2013. But now, it’s thriving.



DETROIT — The Detroit Institute of Arts — now heralding its long relationship with Vincent van Gogh — is one of the finest museums in America and a sanctuary in a city that has gone through moments of glorious wealth — think Henry Ford — and decades of rough times.

The sprawling museum has a Diego Rivera masterpiece mural; lots of powerful African American art; a Rembrandt; a Michelangelo; a rare Pieter Bruegel; an expansive collection of African sculptures, textiles and masks; and one of the first and biggest American collections of the bold, strident German Expressionists that enraged Hitler.

The Diego Rivera mural is the jewel. “It’s our Sistine Chapel,” said Salvador Salort-Pons, the director and chief executive of the museum. “Everybody goes to the Sistine Chapel when they’re in Rome. When they’re in Detroit, they come to see our Diego Rivera.”

The museum has a huge collection of American art going back to colonial days, and lots of modern European paintings and sculptures. It has several Warhols, and works by some of the giants of Abstract Expressionism — de Kooning, Rothko, Frankenthaler and Motherwell. And it has mummies, ancient Chinese porcelain, centuries-old Greek statuary and shining body armor from Germany and Italy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/arts/design/detroit-institute-of-arts-what-to-see.html

These homophobes were yelling Westboro Baptist-style anti-LGBT+ slogans. What do you think I’m gonna do? Take them seriously?😂💃🏽🪩

If you want to associate w/ their views, that’s your business.

But NY-14 will ALWAYS have a champion for LGBTQ+ people on my watch. Period. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💕

Got to be one of the most racist things on US TV in 50 years. Carlson talking about white women "as the key to reproducing the white race," and claiming black people are targeting white women for that reason.

Adds that a black anchor "can barely speak a coherent sentence."

Beyond shocking that this goes on night after night and it's treated as a goofy political sideshow. It's Klan talk, coming from the loudest media voice behind one of our two major parties.