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To: ColtonGang who wrote (53478)	10/27/2000 4:41:19 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

I have seen, at Whitney Biennials and occasional contemporary installations at the Museum of Modern Art, the result of a primarily public system of art funding, and the kind of politically correct, untalented claptrap that is funded. Although there is some room for public funding, since there is a need for art in public spaces, or for grants to museums, we were better off when art was mainly supported by private patronage. Bell Laboratories and other industrial laboratories like it were the spearhead of the telecommunications revolution. Of course there is a role for government R & D, but, again, the political allocation of research dollars is not necessarily more efficient than research motivated by a desire for a lucrative breakthrough. Anyway, I was not talking about that sort of thing primarily. I was talking about a fundamental interest in, and loyalty too, the literary canon, non- politicized art criticism, and objectivity as an ideal to be aimed at in science, all of which have come under attack from the Left......