Mr. Müller is not alone in choosing food as a language with which to link art to an uninitiated but hungry public.

Her enduring vision linking art and public purpose can be exhausting as well as exhilarating.

The marketing pitch is part of Ms. Sunshine's broader attempt to link real estate and art in the minds of wealthy buyers.

Many in France's cultural establishment have what might be called an ideological distaste for linking public art and private money.

Darryl Jagga is renowned for linking art and architecture to his designs.

Yet one of Ernst Beyeler's objectives when he opened his museum 15 months ago was "to link art with life."

The Abstract Expressionists had linked American art with scale.

Ms. Metz dismisses attempts to link such art with personal eccentricity.

In 1963, he signed the "Cultural Manifesto"; a document that opposed linking art to politics.