A Gustave Courbet Portrait Of A Trout

The New Job Of Art Is To Sit On The Wall And Get More Expensive.

It Was The Basilica Of Gossip, The Vatican Of Inside Dope.

Modernism Is The Protein Of Our Cultural Imagination.

The Point Of A Library's Existence Is Not Persuasion Or Evangelism, But Knowledge. It Is Irrelevant To The Good Library Whether, As An Institution, It Shares Or Promotes Your Core Values Or Mine, Or The Attorney General's Or Saddam Hussein's. The Library Is Always An Instrument Of Choice, And The Choice Is Always Yours, Not Your Elected Or Designated Leaders.

Popular In Our Time, Unpopular In His. So Runs The Stereotype Of Rejected Genius.