Jim Hollander/European Pressphoto Agency Questions about issues in the news for students 13 and older. "I don't know what art is, but...." People have been finishing this sentence with "I know what I like" or "I know it when I see it" for a long, long time. How do you define "art"? In chapter 13, Kottak discusses what is considered art, and how we locate it. In this chapter Kottak brings up the point that "the boundary between what's art and what's not is blurred".