A show that connects art with real life, however haphazardly, is not to be sneezed at.

This project commission "new multimedia, location-specific projects connecting art, people and place through creative experience".

They often connect video art and electronic music, and also performing as VJs.

However, he said, "in the end, a simpler name with the same commitment to connect art and society is what drove our decision."

He is a leading figure in the New Aesthetics movement, but he is also known for his theories connecting anarchism and art.

Bread and Roses, she said, is part of "a tradition that connects workers and art and music into a kind of communion."

The show connects art to the world in ways that make it seem relevant, urgent, even dangerous.

You, I suppose, don't connect art with life?

But elsewhere he takes a dim view of those who would connect progressive art to progressive politics.

"I like the way he connects art and culture to the natural environment," said Lois Frankel, the city's mayor.