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What Makes an Artwork Contemporary? (notes from CAI)

What makes an artwork 'contemporary'? (and not, for instance, 'classical', 'modern', or 'postmodern'?) What places an artwork in the now, making it of our time? These are some quick notes from a video by Contemporary Art Issue (CAI) on Youtube. The host, Julien Delagrange, states that the phrase …

What Is Art? — a survey

Here are some varied and wildly contradictory takes on art. I treat these quotes as descriptions of art, rather than definitions, a bit like the blind men able to describe only aspects of the elephant, and never its whole. These quotes have stuck with me over the years. Having scribbled down, or …