THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Graham Bowley
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| The El Greco painting lent to the Detroit Institute of Arts, “St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata,” now hangs in the reopened museum’s medieval and Renaissance galleries. Brittany Greeson for The New York Times |
It was a chance to borrow a rarely seen
El Greco for a museum that had only a single painting by the old master.
So the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts courted a wealthy Dallas collector to arrange for a loan of the painting, “St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata,” and it now hangs in the reopened museum’s medieval and Renaissance galleries.
That coup, however, has set off a whistle-blower complaint, filed with the Internal Revenue Service and the Michigan attorney general, asserting that conflict-of-interest rules to prevent self-dealing have been skirted. The wealthy Dallas collector, it turns out, was the director’s father-in-law. [
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| The El Greco painting lent to the Detroit Institute of Arts, “St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata,” now hangs in the reopened museum’s medieval and Renaissance galleries. Brittany Greeson for The New York Times |
