Is this for real?

When one is clinging like a last survivor to the potential of art to sustain the spirit through these times of global uncertainty, a show like “Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett 2002” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will surely punch the last breath of hope from one’s being (“Poster to pedestal,” by Christopher Reynolds, Nov. 16).

Yikes! Please tell me this is some kind of retrograde joke so I can sleep tonight.

Michele Ogilvie

Venice