It is important to have some knowledge of Fine Art. It is an important aspect of our culture and a truly educated person will have some experience viewing art. Any exposure to it is important.

The art department here was developed in the 1960's and has had a faculty art show since the beginning. It's a tradition in art schools around the world,

Getting a little bit of knowledge in advance on the kinds of things that are expected in a particular culture would be one of the most important things you can do,

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

There have been no discussions to my knowledge about it.

They've really ignored all of the enterprise knowledge that is being managed in their content management environment; that's being stored in databases supporting their different applications, and potentially even in mainframes.