It is an interesting question whether we should let art melt into daily activities. Another way of saying it is whether we should regard our normal behavior as art. An old saying goes that art originates from life above life. We always endow what we've been through with the human context and art context to create resonance and aesthetic feeling. However, according to the article, "art shifted away from the specialized object in the gallery to the real urban environment to the real body and mind to communications technology and to remote natural regions of the ocean sky, and desert."--which means that art has become secularized. The ironic part is that people try to deny the sacredness of art and the basic parts of art such as creativity and skill. The interesting part is that the author tried to become sensitive about his daily event. He sensed the tension of his body and felt the movement of his hand. He also relates the normal behavior to the change of time and space.
I don't really like what Duchamp do. If you wanna break the old frame, you need to create more powerful idea to convince us. Making fun of art just doesn't make sense.
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