I do not like to be unkind.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.