Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue /

• Main Author: Abt, Jeffrey (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in American Economic History
• Subjects: Public administration.; Economic history.; Urban economics.; Culture - Economic aspects.; Economics.; Cultural Economics.; Urban Economics.; Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises.; Public Administration.; Economic History.

This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "nonessential asset" that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts. It presents the history of the museum in the context of the social, e...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Detroit Museum of Art
• 2. The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Founders Society, and the City
• 3. Building Additions, Detroit's Decline, and State Rescue
• 4. Failed Plans, Fresh Crises, a New Relationship
• 5. New Starts, then Detroit's Bankruptcy
• 6. Valuing Art, Trusts, and Return to the Beginning
• 7. Epilogue.