Is artistic merit necessary for a work of art to be considered art and how can

Is artistic merit necessary for a work of art to be considered art and how can

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Is artistic merit necessary for a work of art to be considered art and how can it be assessed? Is a thirty minute pornographic clip of two people having sex merely bad art or is not art at all? If I consider it better than Schindler's List and Roger Ebert does not, how do we determine which view is "right?"

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