What exactly does “contemporary” art mean? “Look at what happened to Modern art, which today is considered to have begun as far back as the mid-19th Century. At first the term described the art of its day, but since then the term has been assigned to a certain historical period. Could the category of contemporary art be used one day to classify art of the second half of the 20th Century? What then – the ghastly ‘post-contemporary’?” – Chicago Tribune