If history reveals anything, it's that art often out lives the controversy it creates. A senator once complained about some modern buildings making his city look cheap, and the architect was jailed. Lynch says all kinds of people wrote negative comments about how the city was wasting money on extremely ugly, distasteful objects. This senator lived in Athens almost 2,500 years ago, and was complaining about buildings such as the Parthenon! Now just try imagining Athens without the Parthenon and the other buildings on the Acropolis.