First, while I don't have figures at my fingertips, it seems highly
unlikely that MOMA earns $250 million in its store (though I wish it
did).  Second, using museum-l as a venue to attack museums as irrelevant
and elitist hardly seems an efficient way of gaining sympathy for the
artists' cause.  Third, I  wonder whether the poster feels that Congress
should reverse itself and allow NEA grants to individual artists, even
at a time when "schools are in a state of imminent collapse."

Andy Finch
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> MOMA, one of the world s most successful art museums, allegedly
> earnsmore than $250 million each year in their gift shop alone.
> Giuliani
> has denied that this is a peculiar way to spend tax dollars when
> the City s schools are in a state of immanent physical collapse.
> Giuliani ...cited cultural benefits to schoolchildren as justification
> for the
> $65 million grant to the private art museum.
>