Tag: Detroit
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The Lack of Hoof Beats–UPDATE
The Daily Beast is reporting that the city council of bankrupt Detroit is planning on giving 45 million dollars to billionaire (2.7 billion net worth) Michael Ilitch so he can build his Detroit Red Wings a new super duper stadium. Never mind that the city is flat broke, Mr. Ilitch must have a new stadium…
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Listening For Approaching Hoof-beats
“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.” Dorthea Tanning, (from Raven’s Wing Studio) What happens when a valuable collection of art meant to benefit a certain group of people becomes a liability to those same people. The Detroit Institute for the Arts (DIA) is facing such a dilemma…