Artist Hans Haacke

McKenna’s article on Haacke was flimflam. Although she takes great pains to quote at length the artist, his dealer and his curator, only six words are heard from other points of view.

As a long-time advocate of many of the causes that Haacke champions, I can only say that he and apologist McKenna give the rest of us a bad name.

Thanks to Hitler and Stalin, so-called art devoted to purely political purposes is deservedly out of favor in this country. Calling simplistic propaganda “fine art” does not make it such, no matter how enthusiastic the propagandist’s dealer may be about his work, or how much some are willing to pay for it.

Poster art belongs on telephone poles.

TOM KELLY

Sierra Madre