Newsweek delves into the civic wealth of Detroit as well as its racial and ethnic mix and how these elements relate to the makeover of the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Businesses have been moving back downtown, too—including the marketing
firm owned by Edsel Ford II, whose grandfather, the son of Henry Ford,
was a key benefactor of the DIA, along with his wife. "They had a great
love for Detroit and for the Institute of Arts," says Ford. "Just think
how controversial it was for him to ask Diego Rivera—a communist—to
come to Detroit and paint those murals." The DIA is full of such
legacies from the old families of Detroit—the Fords and the Dodges, the
Scrippses and the Booths. If the museum can lure the public of today to
see those treasures of the past, it ought to thrive well into the
future.
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