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Who decides what is art?

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Uploaded on 03/03/2008

The question, What is art? is very hard to answer. Is there some arbitor that is the decider? How in a world where things as wide ranging as a painting, to a building, to a model standing beside her own feces, to some hair clippings are seen as art can we be sure something is art? To your mind, what is art?