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Munson takes readers on an eye-opening tour of all these places. She describes prominent museums in Baltimore and Cleveland that have blocked off glorious neoclassical entrances, with their tall columns and wide staircases, because these awe-inspiring gateways supposedly encourage elitism; visitors now shuffle through somewhat less magisterial side doors. She reveals how Harvard's art-history program, once the envy of every school in the land, has decayed into a place where students learn fancy theories but gain little practical knowledge of art objects. She shows how the NEA funded talented and promising artists at its inception, but now (with a bloated budget) considers its first mission the advocacy of social change. The problem isn't that great art isn't being made today--Munson argues that it is, and makes her case well in a chapter on painting. Instead, it's that the current art establishment, at war against the notion of quality, is too confused to recognize any of this. Exhibitionism is a profoundly sensible book that belongs on the reading list of every art fan. --John J. Miller
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