[Tom Edgerton]

Guys, I understand your frustration, believe me. It's not that I don't discriminate in what I personally call art, I just don't spend a lot of time worrying about it. In regard to art, I remember Justice Stewart's '64 definition of pornography: "I shall not today attempt further to define (it). . . but I know it when I see it." And I leave it at that. A wise person once told me, "If you're looking for justice, you're on the wrong planet."

If I had the above-proposed beer with Christo, I probably wouldn't spend a lot of time debating what is and isn't art. But I WOULD spend as much time as possible asking questions like who his underwriters were, how he found them, and how he convinced them to kick in on the funding. You can learn something useful from mostly anyone if you ask the right questions.

Like you, I'm pretty disgusted with the notion of someone selling canned poop, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not at all interested in HOW they did it.

Respectfully,
Tom