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I think you're right. Asking "What is art?" is almost like asking, "What's the best color?" We all have our opinions, but I doubt there really is a right answer.
I thought the article was intriguing, though, not for the Christo exhibit so much as the survey they did with people asking them to choose "masterworks" from a group of paintings and many chose paintings done by four year old children. What does that say? These "modern masterworks" are only masterworks because somebody was willing to pay large amounts of money for them and not simply because they exist? And is this not true of all art? There are many beautiful, masterful pictures in the world that do not get their due simply because their creators were either in the wrong place at the wrong time (working in the wrong "style"), were not prolific enough, or were simply marketing failures. Is the masterpiece still not a masterpiece? Or, is it all about PR?
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