port-commissions, direct grants, and purchases for the national collection. In- deed, public subsidies for the arts remain far more generous than they are in the United States: $33 per capita annually, ver- sus 7 1 cents. Dutch art-often criticized as boring and repetitious-may not have im- proved since the abolition of the Arrange- ment, Tallman allows, but, in what seems a dubious defense, she says that the great- est defect of the Arrangement has been remedied: Art is no longer stored away i...