ext_171270 ([identity profile] xterminal.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2009-01-27 09:23 pm (UTC)

(I suspect it's easier to sell off paintings than professors.)

Maybe in the northeast, babe. Not where I went to school. (But then, popular legend had it my alma mater built its econ department--widely considered one of the best in the country--by finding people who'd been convicted of over x million in insider trading fraud.)

Art is meant to be cherished, not flung to the winds. Where do I protest? Maybe I can paint it on a wall.

I love the cognitive disjunction there, especially since it's actually a perfectly logical three sentences. But then, there are a whole bunch of mandala-makers who would likely disagree with you.

I'd have less of a problem with the idea if America still housed folks like the Arensbergs, who would simply let people come over to their house, wander around, and look at all the Braques and Duchamp hanging on their walls... in today's climate, though, I wonder how much of it will be seen again in my lifetime. sigh.

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