Couldn't open the Post article Barry, but the other gave the gist. Sad,
that. And for you...
Doug
On 19-Mar-07, at 7:25 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> After years of being well-treated by Hirshhorn Museum curators and
> press
> staff because I wrote about many of the artists exhibited, I was
> surprised
> when I stopped receiving press releases and being invited to press
> previews
> at this branch of the Smithsonian Institute. One of the curators (a
> poet
> as well as an art critic) told me that such action resulted from the
> development staff taking over. As the following articles make clear,
> the
> crass gold digging by Smithsonian whores is no more defensible than war
> profiteering by Halliburton greased by federal pigs:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
> dyn/content/article/2007/03/18/AR2007031801369.html
>
> http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/smithsonian/small.html
>
>
> Barry Alpert
>
>
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