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Art is art only in how it's contextualized. One cannot deny the status of an art object or an artistic act if one simply doesn't like it. They will merely overlook or otherwise disagree with how it's understood or interpreted. None of this makes it any more or less an artwork.
Marcel Duchamp is an interesting case when it comes to this. Suddenly a functional tool is an art object. What happened there? It's all context. (Or mostly, anyway.)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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