What Is "Contemporary" Art?

"Contemporary art is a period of information disorder, a condition of perfect aesthetic entropy."
                                                                                                       - Arthur Danto, "The End of Art", 1997

""What is contemporary ​art?" is (clearly) not the same question as "What is ​art?" The former basically asks us to define what is particularly "contemporary" about art - not, significantly enough, what is particularly artistic about it."
   - Dieter Roelstraete, "What Is Not Contemporary Art? The View From Jena, eflux Journal, 2009 

"...the artist is conceived less as an individual producer of discrete objects than as a collaborator and producer of situations; the work of art as a finite, portable, commodifiable product is preconceived as an ongoing or long term project with an unclear beginning and end; while the audience, previously conceived as a "viewer" or "beholder", is now positioned as a co-producer or participant."
                 - Claire Bishop, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, 2012

"Not only do they [contemporary art fairs] adjoin buyers and sellers of contemporary art goods and services, but they streamline the contemporary art experience into a tightly packaged event- a lifestyle- for the international business elite."
                        - Noah Horowitz, Director of the Americas for Art Basel in Miami Beach since 2015
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