John;

If the $US1 million+ bit of sculpture(???) erected for the new US
embassy/fortification in Ottawa is anything to go by, the comment you heard
is probably, as they say, right on the money. Heavens to betsy! Will they
have enough money to fund the SAMs and machine gun posts?

Possibly they could sell off some landscapes to finance it.

Harry

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> From:         John A. Bing[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Sent:         Wednesday, October 13, 1999 10:51 AM
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> Subject:      Museum Laughing Stock
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> I am neither an art professional nor a museum professional.  So I pose
> a question to this list for comments to a statement:
>
> A professional made a statement that no art museum (in the USA, I
> assume) has purchased  contemporary landscape (plein air) art in the
> last 15 years.   And further, that if one did, it (the museum, I
> assume) might be laughed at.
>
> Is this really true? I thought museums, especially contemporary art
> museums bought contemporary art, or does it only apply to certain art?
>
> John Bing
>
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