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the eternal present tense of art, always defined by who's still in the room
means Belonging to the same time — either the present moment or the same period as something else; in art, the work being made now.
from From Latin 'contemporarius,' stitched together from 'con-' (together, with) and 'tempus, temporis' (time) — literally 'with-time' or 'sharing time.' The same 'tempus' gives us tempo, temporal, and tempest's distant relatives; here it simply means two things keeping the same beat. English borrowed it in the early 17th century, and only later did 'contemporary' come to mean specifically 'of our own moment' rather than merely 'of the same moment as.'
- latin roots
- From con plus tempus: literally with the time
- moving target
- Yesterday's contemporary is today's period piece
- art divide
- Modern art ended around 1970; contemporary took over
- shared age
- Also means simply living in the same era