Editing Contemporary art (section)

==Public attitudes==
Contemporary art can sometimes seem at odds with a public that does not feel that art and its institutions share its values.<ref>[[Mary Jane Jacob]] and [[Michael Brenson]], ''Conversations at the Castle: Changing Audiences and Contemporary Art'', MIT Press, 1998, p30. {{ISBN|0-262-10072-X}}</ref> In Britain, in the 1990s, contemporary art became a part of popular culture, with artists becoming stars, but this did not lead to a hoped-for "cultural utopia".<ref>Julian Stallabrass, ''High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s'', Verso, 1999, pp1-2. {{ISBN|1-85984-721-8}}</ref> Some critics like [[Julian Spalding]] and [[Donald Kuspit]] have suggested that skepticism, even rejection, is a legitimate and reasonable response to much contemporary art.<ref>Spalding, Julian, ''The Eclipse of Art: Tackling the Crisis in Art Today'', Prestel Publishing, 2003. {{ISBN|3-7913-2881-6}}</ref> Brian Ashbee in an essay called "Art Bollocks" criticizes "much installation art, photography, [[conceptual art]], video and other practices generally called post-modern" as being too dependent on verbal explanations in the form of theoretical discourse.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www.ipod.org.uk/reality/art_bollocks.asp |title=Art Bollocks |publisher=Ipod.org.uk |date=1990-05-05 |access-date=2011-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716210004/http://www.ipod.org.uk/reality/art_bollocks.asp |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> However, the acceptance of nontraditional art in museums has increased due to changing perspectives on what constitutes an art piece.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-arthistory/chapter/what-is-art/|title=What is Art? {{!}} Boundless Art History|website=courses.lumenlearning.com|access-date=2018-05-04|archive-date=2018-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505065907/https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-arthistory/chapter/what-is-art/|url-status=live}}</ref>