Art In The Media

To the Editor:

I’m sending this article to you on the basis that this will help your readers to better be supplied with enough information from enough different sources so that they may find the closest and truest meaning of the art that is a part of their publicly funded institutions. I’m also writing this to you so that people can contribute their own opinions to act as a guide for others.

I believe that this is an important thing especially after the way that the media and others handled the Sensation Show at the Brooklyn Museum. I felt that the whole thing could have been dealt with more intelligently. I think that it really got out of control when it became a race for votes for the New York State Senate. In looking through the media for my own purposes I have never seen a substantial article or listing in depth enough to give anybody the right idea from more than one perspective. Too many people I feel believed too much in individual sources, because that’s all that they were provided. Whereas if there were to be a consensus they would have the freedom to decide and express themselves to the truest meaning tangible, and being an artist myself, meaning is very important to me. I am not saying that I am a god, and that I have all the answers here. Art is so subjective that it is hard to put a true meaning or understanding to rest about it.

What I would like to have happen is to at least see if some people, and especially the artists, and the common man to work together to create this source. This will help people to be able to look to your paper, and see real people and their judgments from both sides. That is what I would hope to accomplish by writing this to you.

There to are too many people in our country that spread the wrong information around, and masses of people have no place to go because of it. Please consider the power it could give your readers. So that they may have a place to be informed, and a place to count on for the closest thing they have to the truth. I feel that there is a sufficient need for this to happen, and I took it upon myself to survey a hundred people and the need was very apparent. In that there is a need not only from my point of view but also from the point of view of a hundred others in our community.

Your help and action to this concern would be greatly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you, and thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Jonnnathan Yacashin

46 Hanover Road                                   January 26, 2000