The museum is a non profhet with a mandate to serve the people of indiana. Venable doesn't see how collecting more and more stuff that the public will never see, is consistent with that responsibility. If we were offered a painting like that, we would, if somebody wanted we wouldn't buy it, for sure. And yet, particularly an institution that has much better works by vango, where you can show an a plus, at a place like detroit. Why? Why would you bother with a minor thing?
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