i like this topic, but i do not know if art is dead.

movements after movements, the arts have been populiarized? liberated?

more people are confused than ever what is art and if they have the capacity to appreciate arts!

my father used to go to art museums in china all the time, until china is now filled with all sorts of new and revolutionary artistic phenomenon. he simply quit going and told me he "does not understand arts".

for him, something was once there clear that could bring him joy and visual pleasent experiences are gone.

my cousin is a professor in a famous art institution in china, but he is even more confused. what he is teaching is no longer useful there, when the most popular and money fetching artists there use cameras or surgeon knifes for artistic creations.

is art dead? what is art today? what are being displayed, acquired at price of millios of dollars
by curators and collectors...how many people from the mass can appreciate them? is art really liberated or populiarized?

any one with an answer out there?