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| December 01, 2001 | Kimball, Roger | COPYRIGHT 2001 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting.... It was a sort of nihilism to which I am still very sympathetic.

--Marcel Duchamp, 1946

INANE adj. Lacking sense or substance; empty.

--The American Heritage Dictionary

The most delicious news to emerge from the art world this year came in October, courtesy of the BBC. Under the gratifying headline "Cleaner Dumps Hirst Installation" the world read that

 
   A cleaner at a London gallery cleared away an installation by artist Damien 
   Hirst having mistaken it for rubbish. Emmanuel Asare came across a pile of 
   beer bottles, coffee cups and overflowing ashtrays ...

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