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Old 01-16-2005, 08:37 PM
ShyViolet ShyViolet is offline
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Oy - this place is bizzare... I'd heard about it before, but I just explored their website. Daily room inspections? Yikes! What do they go through everyone's stuff to look for DVD's or CD's? It seems ridiculous to me!

But that aside, as it's personal preference, the thing that pisses me off is their art gallery. They have several masterpieces and get public funding for it (the only public funding they receive) but have NO interpretation. No artist, no date, no title, no medium, no provenance, no guide are provided, other than to let patrons know that these works aren't scripturally correct and Catholicism is evil. My God, they have paintings by Peter-Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Paolo Veronese and Tintoretto, major masterpieces. And they don't even tell people who they're painted by. This creates a problem for scholars trying to get information about those works. If they can't be bothered to get the history right and look at it within a proper context, it makes me wonder if they even take any steps to conserve them, or if they're just going to discolor and flake until they're nothing but bits of canvas. Masterpieces have no place in a place that isn't going to appreciate them for what they are, for their place in art history, and the period that produced them. Ending rant now and stepping off the soapbox.

Another strange thing was in the Admissions Counselor section. They ask favourite "bible character". To me, character implies a fictional person. If they're taking the bible as verbatim truth, shouldn't it be "biblical figure"? Probably being too fussy about word choice, but it just doesn't seem right. [Oxford English Dictionary doesn't say one way or another as to the necessity of a character being fictional].
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