[JumpCrisscross]

> Who decided that “good art makes you ask questions” or “art is about starting a conversation”?

We did. By making it relevant here.

> Taping a banana to a wall isn’t art

The one thing baser than taping a banana to a wall is people categorically, doubtlessly concluding that it is or isn’t art.

It isn’t art for you. That this point needs to be made almost singularly means that I do consider it art, if only on the first iteration. (Anyone could have done it. But Cattelan did.) I’ll sidestep the question, too, of whether any comedy is art.

Unless we’re elevating art to a Kantian ideal like math, or arguing it’s subject to the scientific method, art has to be subjectively judged. If that’s true, anyone drawing hard lines is bloviating or attempting coercion.