Ink for fine arts

Thank you for Louise Roug’s wonderfully interesting and beautifully illustrated piece on Lucian Freud and David Hockney (“The Portraitists,” Jan. 12). It was a relief to finally find an article on art and not architecture in the paper. Though we may not often get stimulating shows in Los Angeles, that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty to write about in the art world.

Perhaps the fine arts wouldn’t be in such dire financial straits if they got one-eighth of the coverage of, oh, say, Winona Ryder’s shoplifting trial?

Mady Julian

Studio City