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Hmm, if the market were the only decider, presumably only the richest could have, say, a large sculpture? Or would businesses underwrite those as a goodwill gesture? I'm not sure that public art is all good, or was even the best use of the money, but I guess on balance I appreciate the impulse.


There's a long history of rich people funding the arts, voluntarily. The great art coming from medieval Italy, for example.


There is a long history of feudalism and ignorance and illteracy, of starvation and war. What does that tell us?


It tells us that life in modern America is pretty good.




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