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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (14762)	12/11/1997 11:48:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>more important than wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not millions) on a growing collection of intrinsically worthless inanimate objects.<<< Ouch! Gerry, I can't believe you mean this. What exactly do you think has lasting intrinsic value if not art? What else, for instance, do we have (physically) left of the Greeks and Romans but their sculpture, ceramics, and architecture? The average work by Van Gogh, over say a hundred twenty years, might have a million to one appreciation. Well kept pieces by unknown artists of sufficient age usually appreciate well. And this sculptor is not unknown. At least it's not a giant steel curve! If you want 'intrinsically worthless', I've got a better example: year before last's software. If you want to go after corporate waste, go after those executive jets, why don't you? 100 years from now, that art will probably be the only surviving bit of Microsoft. Chaz