""I would argue that advancing our living cultural heritage and nurturing our national creativity constitute a kind of internal defense," he once said, "in which we preserve our values and strengthen our citizenry.""
""All my life I have been insatiably curious about the world," he once wrote, "wanting to know facts, why things were as they were, and how they happened.""
""If the private sector alone sponsored the arts without public funding, they would become "increasingly bland.""
""Fire Island lost one of its elder statesmen over the weekend," Shoshanna McCollum wrote in a remembrance. "Friend, artist, and legend.""
Several prominent figures in the art world are remembered, including museum directors, curators, artists, and scholars. One leader took over a federal arts agency in 1998, expanded grants to underfunded states through the Challenge America program, and framed cultural heritage and national creativity as a form of internal defense that preserves values and strengthens citizenry. Another led a Paris museum from 2008 to 2017, headed the National Museum of French Monuments and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and was a noted scholar of the Nabis. A prolific author and critic specialized in cemetery architecture and planning and described lifelong insatiable curiosity. A political figure shaped Labour Party arts policy and served as arts minister in 1997–98, warning that private-only sponsorship would make the arts increasingly bland. Other remembrances note a 1960s London painter, a Long Island jeweler and sculptor celebrated on Fire Island, and a longtime director and chief curator at Arizona State University Art Museum.
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