[Mike McC]

Originally Posted by Krylo

Let's say something is critiqued by art critics, put in a museum, and taught to art students as art.

Does it make you an idiot for insisting it isn't? Yes.

But why does it?

Originally Posted by Krylo

Also it wouldn't surprise me if someone doing that was actually a piece of performance art that existed to explore the violent undertones of modern society and how the modern man represses his primal urges even in the face of obvious force.

But... is it Art?