The French support the Louvre. This kind of programming isn't available anywhere else. Everybody knows that the high arts are for a significant minority, but it is a minority with all the money. Get used to it. We're not funding the Backstreet Boys because they don't need it.
People get upset because they fund a dumb or anti-American show.
Microscopic amounts of money are involved with this. It is a problem. Because I was obsessed by the thought of doing random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. As a writer I place value on words. Random means random, senseless means senseless.