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Stormin Norman

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I call BS.  What does this person know about art?  Why should he/she have the right to start putting names on museums?  Can this person even paint?

Yea! Why is Kim Pegula going to NFL meetings. What has she done to earn that right?  She doesn't even play football!

 

 

 

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I call BS.  What does this person know about art?  Why should he/she have the right to start putting names on museums?  Can this person even paint?

Besides, most of the collection at the Albright Knox is MODERN art, not REAL art, which as we all know is paintings of landscapes and horses AND THAT IS IT.

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Yea! Why is Kim Pegula going to NFL meetings. What has she done to earn that right?  She doesn't even play football!

 

 

 

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Actually I think the two situations dovetail nicely and raise essentially the same question. What does being rich give you the right to do?

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The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center became the David H. Koch Theater in 2008, when Mr. Koch, the oil-and-gas billionaire, contributed $100 million toward its renovation. That same year, the New York Public Library’s flagship on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street was named for Stephen A. Schwarzman, a Wall Street financier who donated $100 million toward that building’s expansion.

From a story about how Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center has been renamed David Geffen Hall after Geffen's $100 million donation. The Fisher Family got $15 million to agree to the name change.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/arts/music/lincoln-center-to-rename-avery-fisher-hall.html?_r=0

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From a story about how Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center has been renamed David Geffen Hall after Geffen's $100 million donation. The Fisher Family got $15 million to agree to the name change.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/arts/music/lincoln-center-to-rename-avery-fisher-hall.html?_r=0

 

So wish something desirable had my name on it.

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Actually I think the two situations dovetail nicely and raise essentially the same question. What does being rich give you the right to do?

 

It doesn't give you any more rights than anyone else.  You could donate $20 to the museum and ask for them to change the name.  Clearly, being rich does improve the odds of others acting more favorably to your requests.  However, there is no change in their rights.

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Corporations are people now. Rich people can buy and own anything. They've earned it, after all.

 

It remains unclear to me what the point of this gripe is (I mean, beyond griping that rich people can buy stuff and do with it as they please - including stuff near and dear to our hearts).

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