Let's do the first quickly. Management is deeply embarrassed by the manifold and epidemic dishonesty that is continuing to come to light. It is very important for them to paint the Unions as just as dishonest, if not more so, ASAP. I make no apologies for the Teamsters, if they're crooks, hang 'em, but we know that Enron, Worldcom and their footsoldiers like the National Right to Work Committee would love to change the subject with the elections coming up. And when was the last time you read or saw a positive news piece about the unions, or any union? They get uniformly lousy press from media of all stripes, and there's no reason to expect any different any time soon. Now, about Fischl's sculpture. Rockefeller Center serves two functions - it is an office complex and a tourist attraction. Remember the vertiginous pan shot of 30 Rock that opened David Letterman's show when he was with NBC? Why should the people who work in that skyscraper and those around it have to see this potential threat? (Apologies to Jay, most people see things around them - averting their eyes is an act of will they should not be forced to make every day.) Secondly, Rockefeller Center is a tourist attraction. Visitors to our fair city who go downtown to Ground Zero or pause at that awful accidental piece of kitsch in front of the Milford Plaza do so in a fairly reverential frame of mind. Those I have met speak of awe, terror, horror and spirituality, not of the bouncing of dead jumpers. In my experience they are remarkably free of Grand Guignol appetites and pornography-of-violence drooling. This new sculpture however focuses on violence to the body and individual horror in a way that does no one any good (except of course Mr. Fischl). There is a reason that the jumper footage is embargoed for rebroadcast by all the TV networks that own it. Let this sculpture join exhibitions of Slaughterhouse Art inside museums with the rest of the animal carcasses and auto wrecks. Those who wish to see it may exercise their rights by paying admission. If you don't live here you may not understand this, but this sculpture does not have any business further traumatizing an already wounded city, or encouraging the ghoulish in visitors from out of town. Mr. Fischl does not memorialize the victims, he cannibalizes them. That's not censorship, that's being a good neighbor. A proud and permanently traumatized New Yorker, Dick ===== Dick Rodstein Voiceovers - Local, National, International Audio files delivered over the Internet - wav, mp3, etc. Website: http://www.dickrodstein.com/vo.html Email: [log in to unmask] Snailmail: PMB D-22, 332 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10014 Telephone: (917) 414-5172 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).