What is Art Today?

Four peoples stare at each other, suddenly one starts running, others seem on the verge of tears, the guy on the left grins satanically, he buffets his own head, a toupee falls, with his right hand he pulls up a gun and shoots perhaps after the man who ran away, then, with the left hand he opens a can of beer and start guzzling.
In another feature, we see the back of a man in a business suit. He pulls a wallet from his back pants pocket. He turns. Suddenly a sprightly and diminutive Japanese dancer decked in full garb springs from behind the man. The man counts banknotes from his wallet with an air of consternation. He's on the verge of pulling out some note, but never does so. Meanwhile, the dancer leaps around and makes the kabukiest of faces ... The man leaves the scene, she seems to do so, too, but then returns with a final face.

These are just memories of two of the 45 ultra-slow motion films that were projected on a huge screen this past July on the south side of of the Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center. They must be seen, how can one possibly render the action-stretching of slow motion in words? People streaming out of the Metropolitan Opera House, of mere passers by like yours truly found themselves unexpectedly enthralled.
Like modern physics astounding us with the invisible phenomena at molecular and smaller scales, these short films discovered the microscopic nature of performance. That was art shedding light on art. In their thrall, viewers were wondering "What is Art Today?"
And the features before their eyes were answering that Art is precisely the asking of this Question!