Peter Panned

Your article really bothered me. It’s bad enough that the guy responsible for one of the least challenging, most yuppie-oriented (give ‘em a nice tune, John), “insider” art works of the ‘80s, “Nixon in China,” is again in charge of the major L.A. arts event, his last outing having been an unmitigated disaster.

Now to add insult to injury, we have to read Sellars’ bad agitprop Marxist sloganeering (circa the ‘60s!) concerning the very attitudes he himself acts out, his condemnation of the very capitalist structure that has put food on his table ever since he became the Evian crowd’s glamour boy in the very decade he claims to despise so ardently, his cynical view of morals while decrying that art is about “ valuation , not e -valuation” and, finally, the painful chronology of his behind-smooching all over the city to raise funds for this second installment of his monument to himself, the (so-called) L.A. Festival.

If this city continues lavishing privileges upon mediocrities like Sellars, I fear it actually will cease to be, artistically at any rate. Sellars is a disgrace.

ROBERT CLARK

San Pedro