----------------------------Original message---------------------------- See the following on Artnet Magazine: http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/warrobinson/warrobinson9-23-99.html#7 The article encourages everyone to send comments directly to the Mayor's office and gives the address and phone number: "Send comments to [log in to unmask], or call (212) 788-9600, or write Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, City Hall, New York, N.Y. 10007." Alexis A. Curry, Librarian Cataloger Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Research Library Web: http://www.lacma.org/ Email: [log in to unmask] > ---------- > From: Regina Moore[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 7:28 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Brooklyn Museum and Mayor Guiliani (fwd) > > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > No one has addressed the blooper in all the uproar: > > "Artists" who > > are in need of psychotherapy should visit a shrink, not pollute the > > walls and floors of cultural institutions with their ***deification*** > (or > > the excrement of any animal for that matter). > > Mr. Keaveney, > Did you mean to say DEFECATION (the act of discharging feces from the > bowels), not DEIFICATION (derived from deify, "to make a god of, to take > as an object of worship, to glorify as of supreme worth"? > > As an ARLIS-L lurker, I am grateful to Jeffrey Salem, Martha Hagood, and > others who have cast the light of good sense and reason on this rather > murky situation. > > Regina Moore > Regina S. Moore ([log in to unmask]) > Assistant Director, Kent County Public Library > 408 High Street, Chestertown, MD 21620 > (410) 778-3636 >