This article is really not true at all. Art is not becoming irrelevant, it is just changing.
We are bombarded with audiovisual media now. A painting, a song, or even a "shocking" performances is much less valuable in a supply/demand sense than. (500 years ago, something as beautiful and pure as a painting was very rare!)
But new forms of art have replaced them. Relational art ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_art ) is a popular one. Relational artworks use humans, not media, as material. A relational artist might say that what is rare and valuable today is not visual media, but human connectedness and meaningful experience. A relational artwork might try to help a community solve a social issue, or create social connections that would not otherwise exist.
These new forms of art are not evaluated on how shocking they are. They are evaluated on how they affect the world.
We are bombarded with audiovisual media now. A painting, a song, or even a "shocking" performances is much less valuable in a supply/demand sense than. (500 years ago, something as beautiful and pure as a painting was very rare!)
But new forms of art have replaced them. Relational art ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_art ) is a popular one. Relational artworks use humans, not media, as material. A relational artist might say that what is rare and valuable today is not visual media, but human connectedness and meaningful experience. A relational artwork might try to help a community solve a social issue, or create social connections that would not otherwise exist.
These new forms of art are not evaluated on how shocking they are. They are evaluated on how they affect the world.