I think the main problem with the recent diversity push is the alienation of current readers who don't like that their
favourite character has been dropped fundamentally altered, and is dismissed by
potential new readers as dumb and pandering.
(1) The art collector he admires most is Count Panza di Biumo; (2) Of all visual artists active c.1940 - 2009, only Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Damien Hirst will be seen as important; (3) Of all the promising artists who died young, the one with the most
potential was Scott Burton; (4) He prefers Monet to Modigliani; (5) His
favourite art museum is the Prado, Madrid; (6) His house is usually full of Paula Rego pictures; (7) He disagrees with Blake Gopnik, the Washington Post art critic, who said «painting has been dead for 40 years»; (8) The point of visual art is to counterbalance all the bad TV and films we watch; (9) Jackson Pollock's best painting is One (Number 31), 1950, MoMA,
New York; See: Jackson Pollock's paintings (c.1940 - 56).