WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY ART?

What is contemporary art? First, and most obviously: why is this question not asked? That is to say, why do we simply leave it to ho ver in the shadow of attempts at critical summation in the grand tradition of twentieth-century artistic movements? The contemporary delineates its border invisibly: no one is proud to be contemporary, and no one is ashamed. Indeed, the question of where artisti c movements have gone seems embedded in this question, if only because the contemporary has become a single hegemonic ism that a bsorbs all pro...[Read more]