How would philistines approach the Sistine?

THERE ARE people who are called tone-deaf because they are unable to appreciate music. Kevin Cullen ("Fairey's art of hypocrisy," Metro, Feb. 12) represents an insensitivity one might call art-blind, because he apparently prefers the look of some boring, unadorned structure over one made interesting by someone's artistic imagination.

If Cullen had been living at the time of Michelangelo, he probably would have condemned him for defiling the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with graffiti, and would have preferred the more prosaic choice of hiring Joe the Painter to decorate it the normal way, with a roller.

Berge Tatian
Stoneham