Abstract
In his book After the End of Art, a philosopher, Arthur C. Danto, readdresses one of his most provocative thesis, i.e., that art came to an end.
Danto does not claim that people stopped making art, but art broke free from the traditional progressive framework of art history in the 1960s. If Danto is right on this matter, it raises how we should think about contemporary art when traditional narratives do not work anymore.
Danto answers this question in his After the End of Art: he ponders the museum's role, speculates about aesthetics, the need to change the character of criticism, and especially about the freedom of art brought by pluralism.