Rachel Leon is executive director of Common Cause New York, a nonprofit group that tracks the influence of money in politics.
As urban fashion tracked the influence of street gangs, it also occasionally went deeper inside criminal culture for its inspiration.
But in the first nine months, health care lobbyists spent at least $396 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks the influence of money on elections and policy.
"Symbolic Space," in the main gallery, tracks the influence of architecture on the work of 43 artists from 17 countries, while "Repetition," in the project space, is a selection of works looking at repetition in art.
The anti-tobacco group reported lobbying expenses that totaled $2.4 million from 2003 to 2008, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group that tracks the influence of money on politics and government policy.
The committee's chairman, Representative Jeb Hensarling, Republican of Texas, remains the top recipient of donations from industry PACs this year, taking in $282,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit group that tracks the influence of money in politics.
The New York Times compared a list of 548 Pioneers and Rangers from 2004 assembled by Texans for Public Justice, a watchdog group that tracks the influence of money in politics, against a list of roughly 500 McCain fund-raisers assembled by Public Citizen, another public interest group that tracks names that emerge in news articles and campaign press releases.
"Given his policies during the campaign, this is as consistent as you can write these rules and still raise the tens of millions of dollars that modern inaugurations have required," said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks the influence of money in politics.
Organized with Adam Gopnik, an art critic and a writer for The New Yorker and a former student of Mr. Varnedoe's, the 1990 exhibition was designed, not unlike "Primitivism," to track the influence on modern art of things not traditionally thought of as art.
But there is one big exception: "how we're going to respond to globalisation".Pitted against the free-trading New Democrats are the old ones, where unions retain strong influence (in the past two years, labour has given $12.4m to the Democrats, according to Common Cause, a group which tracks the influence of money in politics).
