{"id":2187,"date":"2013-08-20T10:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T10:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/2013\/08\/20\/can-a-museum-be-considered-just-an-economic\/"},"modified":"2015-07-15T10:55:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T08:55:42","slug":"can-a-museum-be-considered-just-an-economic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/08\/20\/can-a-museum-be-considered-just-an-economic\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a museum be considered just an economic resource?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2187 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/08\/20\/can-a-museum-be-considered-just-an-economic\/the-detroit-industry-fresco-cycle-diego-rivera1932-1933-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_mrtsbbuUXs1spa6oao3_500.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2190\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2190'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Detroit Industry fresco cycle, Diego Rivera,1932-1933\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376990491711_4091\">As Detroit files for bankruptcy \u2014 the largest American city ever to do so \u2014 the impressive collection of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dia.org\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Institute of Arts<\/a>\u00a0has become a political bargaining chip in a fight that could drag on for years between the city and its army of creditors, who have said in no uncertain terms that the artworks must be considered a saleable asset.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376990491711_4104\">Yesterday, the museum, which has vowed to go to court to oppose any attempt to sell its art to raise money for to the city, said in a statement that it \u201crecognizes the city\u2019s severe financial distress and its need for the protection and powers of the bankruptcy court\u201d to help get the city back on its feet. But it added that the city should not \u201cundercut those goals by jeopardizing Detroit\u2019s most important cultural institution and the economic, educational and other significant benefits it brings to the city and the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376990491711_4115\">In the picture, The\u00a0<em id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376990491711_4120\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376990491711_4116\">Detroit Industry<\/span><\/em>\u00a0fresco cycle. It was conceived by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886\u20131957) as a tribute to the city\u2019s manufacturing base and labor force of the 1930s. Rivera completed the twenty-seven panel work in eleven months, from April 1932 to March 1933.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376990491711_4124\">It\u00a0was commissioned by the\u00a0Ford, and\u00a0<\/span>it is considered the finest example of Mexican mural art in the United States, and the artist thought it the best work of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Detroit files for bankruptcy \u2014 the largest American city ever to do so \u2014 the impressive collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts\u00a0has become a political bargaining chip in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[1263],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape","tag-diego-rivera","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}