Selling Museum Collections to Save Cities - Intermission (continued)

I started to write this post several times, but always stopped, since the situation in Detroit is still developing in a way that the other examples we've looked at weren't.  Rather than jump the gun and write out a whole treatise which I then have to revise the next time the news is on, I think I'm going to let this one simmer for a little bit and come back to it in a couple of weeks when there's more information and less speculation.

In the meantime, here's some suggested reading:

• Howdy Doody's not for sale, according to NPR

• Bloomberg makes the case for moving Detroit's art to other museums

• Bloomberg's got it wrong, says the New Republic

• The New Yorker talks about tourist impact and trickle-down economics

I'll see you back here in a few weeks to recap these articles and whatever else comes up in the meantime. Same bat time, same bat place!