Government has zero business buying “art.” That’s not government.
Armand Hammer, a principal benefactor to Al Gore Sr. bought many Czarist treasures from the Bolsheviks at fire sale prices because the needed hard currency.
Really not, it's on public display - many museums may even include 'free' days. but the tax dollars taken is a stickler A better example would proly be D Lions stadium or Tiger field subsidies.
Would be interesting to see $$ generated (or lack of) from an auction of "Modern Art" holdings ...
Whoa, some good stuff there. Twenny bucks for the Rembrandt. BTT
The DIA is the first museum in the United States to have a Van Gogh, and now it has several.
It has Bernini’s model for St Peter’s Chair from the St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Picasso, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Degas, Singer Sargent, murals by Diego Rivera, a complete colonial home, incredible Egyptian artifacts, medieval, roman.........I could go on.
Needless to say, the DIA is a bright jewel full of treasures, and this is coming from a person who has an apartment across from the Louvre.