Art now

Market, museum, screen.

The system

Galleries, biennales, auction houses and museums together decide visibility and price, which are related but not the same as significance.

Restitution of colonial-era objects is an active debate.
Digital and installation work resists the single-object market.

New media

Photography, film, video, performance and generative work each faced the same question in turn: whether a form dependent on technology can be art. The answer has always eventually been yes.