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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (5038)	9/23/1998 3:33:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>>The most outrageous episode of this is the artist ... Jeff Koons is the absolute worst, Morley Safer even did a piece on him, and hes an art lover. But, its a hard call, for example I have a Keith Haring which is a museum quality piece now, and he was an obscene graffiti artist, also Basquiat is another one who produced offensive junk and is now in the museums. Michelle

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (5038)	9/23/1998 3:43:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Re: government support for the arts. There I must disagree with you. Which is rare. I do agree that a lot of silly and worthless stuff is claimed to be art for a time, even sometimes by significant factions within the arts community. And I think that private support for the arts is essential. But I think public support is very important as well. Throughout the history of high art, governmental support at one level or another, and usually from the top, has been very important in supporting high artistic achievement. I think its much better for government to support art with some degree of generosity, and end up supporting some garbage along with some great work, and a lot of reasonable efforts of some value, than to choke off fairly open avenues for supporting creativity. Doug