I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

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