After six years of art classes, two years in a studio, and one year of art history, there is a question I still can’t answer satisfactorily. What is art? For some, like my friend Ana Baric, a Columbia College first-year, the question issues a minimal challenge. “Art is what Ana thinks is pretty,” she tells me with a twinge of sarcasm. She may be kidding, but for many, a similar answer has become standard in response to the incredible variety of works being produced in the modern day.
