In a message dated 7/27/99 12:32:54 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

>>whose broad public
>>appeal is their main virtue"

>>Um...is there something wrong with this picture?

When read out of context, yes.

The MFA-B has been setting phenomenal attendance records, holding over such
shows as fashion photographer Herb Ritts, and animated cartoons Wallace and
Grommit.

Perhaps it is a few centuries early to determine the extent to which these
conform to "fine" art. Temporal popularity is easily measured. Eternal
quality is a more difficult judgment.

David Formanek
Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum
USS Constitution Museum

Affiliations listed for identification purposes only. The opinions contained
in this e-mail are the writer's own.

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