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Annals of the Art World: Everything Old Is New Again

Some modern artists pretend to be “challenging” or “transgressing” conventional boundaries, but all such boundaries were long ago erased.
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Annals of the Art World: Everything Old Is New Again
A member of staff poses next to a painting by U.S artist Jackson Pollock entitled 'Blue Poles' at the Royal Academy of Arts in London on Sept. 20, 2016. Carl Court/Getty Images
Roger Kimball
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What is it about the word “art"?

Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball
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Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”