Yes, Mary you are absolutely right!!, money blinds people!. I detest it,I hate it. Hmm,you dont know how much of this bufonery I have to deal with here in architecture,(architects are just "over their head"they talk to much,do less),hopefully im showing them how to be artists .Tend to look at the other side of the coin,you get to see masterpieces online. Sometimes,one has to "play a certain role",for some good things things to come!. If Mims studios was in Arc,which who cares what they think?anyways!..,real art speaks for itself, you could get more students,more publicity,and I think it will be the only way to spread good principles,for, how do you defeat the enemy,but by uniting with him?,think for a moment,... do you think Michelangelo (and I highly think Jeffrey is a reincarnation of him ,hehe 
) and the other masters of the Reinassance did not put with this sort of crap ,I bet he did, but he thought,that his work is more important than what others thought
cheers.
I hate to play the role of moral relativist here, but one's take on the ARC is a matter of perspective. I am about to graduate from a university and can tell you that the so called art program has been the most nihilistic experience of my life. If I hadn't found the ARC, and the helpful resources there, I would have put my paint brushes down long ago. Nothing is pure. Artists and there advocates living in a material world need money. The trick is to live in the world without be of the world.
Just because ARC (the self-approved approval committee) is easy to find, or because its money-moves-the-world, opportunistic mentality has been around since before Michelangelo or money, doesn't mean it should be condoned. How can you look at the purity of the angel in the previous blog entry (Thayer) and say that ARC is "okay," and to learn to live with it. Would you say that to the angel?
ARC is fostering a new generation of sheep, the same that hopped onto the post-modern bandwagon, the abstract expressionist highway to hell, and what is now the photorealism escalator to "ARC-approved mastery" (only costs you a small fee). If instant gratification could get more instant, it would probably cost you an ARC premium fee.
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