Our Right to Demand Clean Air and Good Quality Art

The enthusiastic response to last week's program about the daring art installation "Stations of the Cross" at San Gabriel's Church of Our Saviour made me think about how much of contemporary art is experienced by us outside of museum and gallery walls.  The problem is that most of the art we may encounter in restaurants, in hotels, in theatre lobbies or in doctors' offices is rather mediocre, to put it mildly.  I wonder how all these places would be perceived if the quality of art there was improved.  Everyone knows what happens to your body when you eat nothing but junk food.  Now think about all the bad art that is ingested through our eyes while we're in these public places.  Imagine the damage it does to our collective psyche...