"To be ideological is to preconceive reality." Indeed! In his fervor to picture the Met as a racist, elitist, outdated bastion of high art the author does not c

"To be ideological is to preconceive reality." Indeed! In his fervor to picture the Met as a racist, elitist, outdated bastion of high art the author does not care to spend any verbiage on the real problem: the Met's inaptitude for money. While mentioning a constant beat about money troubles he doesn't really talk about what is causing these, except mentioning number of visitors has doubled. Leaving that aside, as one data point I wanted to compare Met's membership rates for two adults with those of Chicago's Art Institute, of which we are members: $105 for the Art Institute, $100 for the Met. And the Institute, while great, is no Met!