This article is really not true at all. Art is not becoming irrelevant, it is just changing.<p>We are bombarded with audiovisual media now. A painting, a song, or even a &quot;shocking&quot; performances is much less valuable in a supply&#x2F;demand sense than. (500 years ago, something as beautiful and pure as a painting was very rare!)<p>But new forms of art have replaced them. Relational art ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Relational_art" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Relational_art</a> ) is a popular one. Relational artworks use humans, not media, as material. A relational artist might say that what is rare and valuable today is not visual media, but human connectedness and meaningful experience. A relational artwork might try to help a community solve a social issue, or create social connections that would not otherwise exist.<p>These new forms of art are not evaluated on how shocking they are. They are evaluated on how they affect the world.