In a message dated 3/4/2005 4:07:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
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<< Someone who has no background with no opportunity made
 to give it to them, is going to be made to feel dumb
 (not a nice feeling, just as my words are failing me
 and David H is bound to zap me any minute because this
 morning I wrote suttle when I KNEW it was subtle but
 my too tired brain didn't catch the subtle/suttle
 difference when it was that early and that tired).  >>

Really, Indigo, you misjudge me!  In the first place, I didn't notice your 
"suttle," and in the second place, I don't jump on every typo or misspelling I 
see in the 200 or so e-mails I get every day (that would be a full-time job).  
Just dealing with the issue of "it's" when people mean "its" (many, many 
others, not you) would be daunting enough.  Anyone can make a typo, and I've been 
known to misspell my own name on occasion.  The other day I caught myself 
writing a "their" when I meant "they're."  I did catch it, though, as I usually 
proof everything I write, and I wish everyone would take the time to do so.

Having raised firestorms when I tried to be helpful by pointing out 
misspelled foreign phrases--probably errors, not typos--plus incorrect translations of 
foreign phrases, and asking clarification when someone wrote an incomplete 
sentence (it looked like they had accidentally deleted some words or had let a 
thought get derailed), I've tried to resist my hobby...

But to get back to the art museum "problem":  It may be a matter of 
perspective (har!).  I don't know anything about the statistics and demographics of art 
museums vs. other kinds of museums.  But, empirically speaking, I do know 
that the art museums in the Washington and Baltimore areas that I visit are 
usually pretty busy places, especially the National Gallery of Art.  And the Art 
Institute of Chicago was very crowded when I was there in November.  Perhaps 
someone would care to comment on the relative "success" of art museums in various 
regions.  

David Haberstich

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