the riveras, the van goghs, the william randolph hearst armor. it's all getting inspected and appraised by christie's auction house of new york city, which was hired last week by detroit's emergency manager. there's no vote on a decision like this, the emergency manager gets to do whatever he wants on his own say-so with anything that bloelongs to detroit. the emergency manager says this doesn't mean he's definitely going to sell the contents of the museum. it just means that now he has had the city file for bankruptcy, he wants to get a sense of how much it's all worth. you know, cash value. liquidation value, just in case. is that legal? you might think, hey, this could be just this one guy's decision? the michelangelo drawings aren't exactly his to sell, are they? that armor that randolph william hearst donated to the museum, so that public institution, to the city, could it just be sold off now for cash? if the museum has anything to say about it, the answer is no. the director of the detroit institute of art said this week that the museum is

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