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We Could Honor Artists By Selling Detroit’s Art?

VISUAL Posted: July 11, 2014 8:43 am

“A good deal of the outrage directed at the idea of selling off art from Detroit’s museum is a backlash against the vague idea that doing so would mean rejecting art as a whole, or would amount to a declaration that the residents of Detroit do not deserve to enjoy art. On the contrary. I can think of no higher expression of Van Gogh’s artistic worth than the fact that Detroit could—with the sale of a single one of his paintings—provide water to all of its citizens.”

VISUAL Published: 07.10.14

Read the story in Gawker Published: 07.10.14

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