What is Art?
Decades ago, I sat in a smoky café in Austria, arguing with leftist intellectuals about the nature of art. Walter, long since passed away, proclaimed, “Art is anything anyone wants to call art!”
I liked that definition. It seemed capacious.
I even had a way to visualize so-called “conceptual art.” In my view, the art involved whatever was happening in the artist’s life, say, the view of your bathroom from the door just as the viewer is about to step into it. The artist draws a big…
