Of course, “The Gates” is art, because what else would it be? Art used to
mean paintings and statues. Now it means practically anything human-made that is
unclassifiable otherwise. This loss of a commonsense definition is a big
art-critical problem, but not in Central Park, not this week.

Peter Schadejael in this weeks new yorker, in realtion to the gates.

What I said on ILX:

i think he is right about the biggest art critical problem right now is the quesiton of defitions, the one that most people are trying to sort (return of the real by foster; hickeys dragon book, etc) and i dont know why he should be fired for saying so---in fact i said something similar wrt ruscha in brown wedge a while back.
that said i think whats really exciting in new york this month is what i have heard to be an amazing twombly works on paper retrospective at the whitney.
i also find it really interesting that the christos do not think of their work as conceptual---there is something to be said of the cult of the object in their work, and there v. obv connections to old fashioned ideas of craft (esp. the drawings)