Is It Design or Is It Art? Or Does Your Checkbook Even Care?

A couple of weeks back, we were reporting on the hot new trend of skipping all that painted and sculpted junk and instead collecting pieces of design by people like Zaha Hadid. Now Helen Kirwan-Taylor over at The Wall Street Journal has jumped into the game, raising the question in the title of her piece, “Is This Art? Or Just Really Expensive Furniture?” Turns out, the answer is just as muddled as anything that comes when you start wondering what makes something “art.”