It was this 'you get it or you don't' attitude. I found it to be an attitude of incredible arrogance and I think it has done a lot of damage to its reputation. Harold wrote about it but in a way that was opaque to the average reader. These people were breaking rules, pushing limits, exploring the ugly with the beautiful, the deliberate with the accidental. It's interesting whether you like it or not but if you don't understand the context you're not going to appreciate it."
She lives in Portland, Ore., with her husband and remains close to her stepmother. Her half of her father's collection has been on extended loan to the museum for years. Though she now appreciates abstract expressionism, she has her own contemporary art collection.
And unlike her father, she collects it as a conscious act.
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