"Ridiculous" snorts William ? I'm sure that the M.O.M.A. directors of today would react the same way.
But I'm not asking them to do anything other than what curators of historical art are doing as they sift through millions of pots, figurines, portraits, icons, landscapes etc, and then select a few on the basis of visual distinction, regardless of whatever "argument" each piece might be making. Regarding automobiles, I saw one displayed in the Cincinnati Art museum just last weekend, right across the hall from the little memorial to the art catalog design of Noel Martin. Apparently some big-time collector loans the museum one of his vintage sport cars on a regular basis. Do the things still run? Who knows? -- who cares? Granted, it's very difficult to ignore the arguments that can be associated with the arts of ones own time, which is why William's generation will always hate Nazi art, and later generations are so fond of whatever is "P.C." It takes a special, aesthetic discipline to set aside such attitudes, and just focus on visual distinction. Unfortunately, museums of contemporary art are places where selected arguments are flouted rather than ignored, which makes them more like display rooms of fashionable ideas rather than art museums. ( while M.O.M.A is somewhere in between ) ____________________________________________________________ Click for affordable Student Health Insurance plans. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxQxK4CV5iZiJj26RNnS8yJmw 2DGNfzKGHHTpnP7RUynPWVIcZcINK/
