The lecturer at the opening of the Tel Aviv Museum pointed out that we are not the same people that we were when we planned this exhibit four years ago.  Our needs are different, our goals are different.  The sense of reconsidering and rebuilding the identity of the country underlies many considerations about exhibits now.  Not that the artists have changed, but their relationships to society have been re-examined and re-emphasized. 

I admit I like it.  The self-satisfaction and superciliousness of the art world in the past has really bothered me in the past years.