Étant Donnés

On completely different note, I once spent several minutes 'appreciating' a dirty outline of a rectangle on a gallery wall (at Los Angeles County Museum of Art) before realizing that the 'real' art was missing (removed for some reason or another), and I was looking at the shadow of dirt that had accumulated around the edges of the now-absent painting. -whit ), " - Charles Willeford's crime novel "The Burnt Orange Heresy" features a noted Duchamp-esque character famous for hanging an empty frame in front of a crack in the wall of his studio.