[New-Poetry] sent by (letters)

[Chris Lott]

On 6/13/07, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
> Aside from that, it seems to me that more times than not when I look at the
> reproduction of a painting or piece of sculpture in a book, its label says
> it is from someone's collection.  Seems to me, most exhibits I read about
> have a lot of work from private collections, too.  Of course, no one should
> have anything that not everyone else has, but at least these guys loan it
> out.

But that's the problem-- just because the exhibits you see have work
from private collections doesn't mean any significant part of the work
held in private collections are being exhibited.

I'm not jousting with the windmills of making all art free, I just
find news about art changing hands from one private owner to another
to be a strange kind of news for the rest of us. With letters, a form
of writing I believe greatly underrated as art and a kind of
historical artifact that is already being killed off by technology, it
is even stranger.

c