File this one under “extremely nice gestures.”
The Association of Art Museum Curators Thursday announced plans to move its annual conference from Houston to Detroit next spring to show support for the Detroit Institute of Arts.
“We have watched the situation in Detroit and at the DIA very closely this year,” Emily Ballew Neff, president of the AAMC, said in a news release. “Moving our conference to the DIA affirms our support of one of the most outstanding museum collections in the world.”
The conference, which runs from May 4-6, will bring about 300 curators from around the world.
Houston must wait until 2016.
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