FDR's commissioning of art is one of the few Constitutionally lawful acts he performed. The Constitution gives the Federal Government specific power to subsidize useful arts. The majority of conservatives can see that Ashcroft has made a horses a$$ of himself over this. So despite the fact that government commissioned art goes wasted on you personally, doesn't mean it's a waste. Pearls before swine...
Do the murals of T.H.Benton also give you that funny feeling in your pants and make you angry?
Correction, you don't know that. Most of the people who are "getting their nipples hard" about this are well known Libertarians on FR.