CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
This is just one of the pavilions at Crystal Bridges.
My understanding is that Crystal Bridges is an attempt
by Alice Walton of the Walton family to bring some
"culture" to our part of the country. That is, the Ozark
hills.
I have visited there twice. Now I like a pretty picture
as well as the next person. Maybe even more. But an
expensive original picture does not do anything more
for me than a pretty picture on the internet.
I suppose what turns me off is that I have read that Alice
and the Walton foundation have made endowments of
800 millions dollars to this museum. Yes, you read that
right - 800 million dollars. Just trying to bring us some
"culture".
BUT,
when driving up there through several different
communities I pass numbers of homeless people.
Now what is more important, a little culture or
a home and something to eat.
Does our culture perhaps have some misguided
values.
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