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freedom of choice.

I have just read this article with interest. As I did so, it occurred to me that those who pay for all of this have no say in what photographs- and indeed what paintings, and what sculptures are chosen for national collections.

This need not be so, as the Internet enables us to nominate our own choices, which could then be very quickly sifted through, and the work with the most votes from British voters decide what gets bought and put where.

This is of course a far better idea than gallery and museum staff making their own list and then getting us to vote our agreement with their choices, when their job is surly to curate and display what works we most enjoy looking at.

And not before time! since our museums are cluttered up with vast amounts of ugly useless bric-a-brac of all sorts, much of which taxpayers have had to pay out a fortune for, on the mere whim of one or two state employees.

Bargain?

What did the National Media Museum splash out £134 for in 2007?

Really?

Der Rhein II ... you gotta be kidding me...I would have thrown that in the bin if it was one of mine.

Gursky

That's not a proper landscape photograph...where's the jetty??

Harrumph.