Anything is art. Call it art, it’s art. These days that’s how it is. It allows the experience of making art to be more widely experienced and enjoyed. But that doesn’t mean that it will all stay art.
The reality is that art is constantly tested—by viewers, experts, through dialogue and time. At every instance it must defend itself as art. At every instance it must be able to give up meaning. It may fail a test here and there—which is only reasonable, especially in its early life. If it endures, it endures as art. As Walter Darby Bannard says, it is always “art becoming art.”
Art is made in its time and for its time. It’s the passion, discipline, depth, craft, commitment and deep humanity of art that transcend time into the timelessness of art.
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