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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (14819)	12/12/1997 12:42:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Chaz, there is nothing wrong with art, per se. If you or Bill Gates want to spend your personal fortunes to become patrons of the arts, I have no complaint. However, I do not feel that spending exhorbitant amounts of money on extravagant art collections is an appropriate use of CORPORATE resources, which are supposed to be directed to the creation of wealth, not its enjoyment or even its preservation through the pursuit of investments unrelated to the main corporate business. Furthermore, I, for one, do not think it is going to help their reputation among working men and women if they spend outrageous sums on art while shafting their employees (oh, that's right, they call them "independent contractors"). Without debating the merits or demerits of the contrators' cause, I think it's fair to say that blowing money on art while their people go wanting will only make them look worse than they already do. As for "big outdoor sculpture," I hope to God they're not blowing their money on what I like to call "Government Art." That's the outrageous stuff that gets put in government buildings and plazas at public expense because no one else in their right mind would take it. There is a little plaza to the immediate west of the Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles which is a perfect example of what I am talking about. Now, you may think Government art is the greatest thing since sliced bread. That's your right. And if you personally want to support the artists who do that kind of stuff, more power to you. But for publicly-owned buisnesses and government to buy it is, IMHO, wrong.