a vaguely Dadaist spirit

“Art is made to be seen,” said David Burton, a professor of art education at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. “It’s sort of like food: why would you go through the trouble of cooking a whole meal and then not eat it?”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/garden/27artbox.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/garden/27art.html