[TheRealNGenius]

Yeah I think that's pretty fair. Music, theatre, cinema are performing arts. Not art. You qualify it with "performing".

And that's my point really. It's a distinction based on definition. Collectively, institutions recognize this and inherently add qualifiers to distinguish between these varying disciplines.

[NLips]

So am I right in understanding you aren’t saying photography isn’t “an art”; just that it isn’t “fine art”? In which case I think you’d see much less disagreement here.

[TheRealNGenius]

I'd probably drop the fine and call what you call fine art, art. But functionally, would likely agree with the distinctions you make between them.