"Does allowing employees to make decisions about selecting art inspire demands for more input into corporate decisions of all kinds? [Lynne] Sowder suspects that this is the case...[But] put another way, the paradoxical contradiction inherent in First Bank System's visual arts program is that the employees don't have unusual power outside the realm of the division of visual art. FBS's visual arts program became a lightning rod for discontent by simultaneously focusing attention on—and distracting attention from—the real problems at FBS."
-Village Voice, 1990