Several months ago, in an article for THE WEEKLY STANDARD called “The Radware: A Not-All-That-Modest Proposal,” I suggested that conservatives should stop complaining about culture and do something about it: should create new institutions, starting with a museum. The museum’s curators would dazzle all comers with their verve and fresh thinking and sheer energy, and promise to give up the culture world’s number-one favorite hobby — rubbing the public’s nose in leftist platitudes — in exchange for something a little more constructive, like macrame. (We’d even provide the staff with self-help books on request. Stop Being a Leftist Ninny: Ten Easy Steps, etc.)
Of the many readers I heard from, most liked the idea (a few invited themselves to the opening). An actual new museum remains remote, but some discussion is taking place about a heterodox artand-history exhibit to be staged in New York. Even a single show is dauntingly expensive and complex to arrange, but stranger things have happened.
