Christopher Knight asks, "Which would you rather have: (a) a good art collection housed in a lousy museum building, or (b) a good art collection housed in a great museum building?" ("Art in a Proper Setting," March 6).
How about, (c) a museum whose board of trustees spends time and money improving the collection, building up a relatively puny endowment fund, and allocating only enough monies to capital improvements so that the current hodgepodge look of the complex (caused when structural changes dating to the 1980s weren't as thorough as they should have been, undoubtedly due to the inability of LACMA to raise a fraction of the millions and millions that the Metropolitan, for example, gets for construction projects, not to mention artworks, operations, etc.) is finally addressed.
