[strother]

It is interesting that urban areas seem to go from slums, to artist havens, to yuppie sanctuaries. I get the sense that many people who moved to my part of Houston precisely for the public art and architecture are fervently against the public funding that put it there. It's weird. I think too many of the middle class harbor illusions that they are in the upper class and able to afford great art, when truthfully, they wouldn't normally be able to access it without public funding or private benefactors.