According to this, the Obamas have decked the halls of the White House with Rothko, Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, bronze sculptures by Degas, the Electric Telegraph patent model (?), etc. The Kennedys preferred Cézanne; the Clintons Kandinsky.

Is that intended to leave the NYT reader to assume that the White House was decorated with fat chef tchotchkes and those paintings with from the mall with the lights for the 8 years prior to Jan. 20?