31.   American Indian art is virtually absent from major museums except as anthropological data.

32.   Although produced for centuries, kingfisher feather art is an uncommon sight in the United States outside of occasional pieces found in antiques shops or Asian galleries.

33.   Among major museum shows in the offing, Chinese art may be close to ubiquitous.

34.   Among other things, it shows that art is important to the state.

35.   American Folk art is difficult to define.

36.   Amid all the cement and steel and bodies that fell from the sky in the World Trade Center collapse, there was art.

37.   And art is our most important teacher.

38.   Ancient Egyptian art was a revelation to him, not only for its monumentality but for what it said about the esthetic accomplishment of non-Western cultures.

39.   And art is a commodity.

40.   And one realizes afresh how much this art is a product of male-generated sexual fantasy.