The Obama administration quietly revived it last year, Lotito told me, eventually drawing 6, 000 comments including critical evaluations by the American Bar Association, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Association of Corporate Counsel.
There are those whose tastes mold institutions, like cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder , who bought his first drawing, a work by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele , with money from his bar mitzvah and went on to fund and found the Neue Galerie New York to showcase German and Austrian art.