On contemporary art and artists -- The wreckage of Modernism and after: 1945-1979 -- The return of painting: the early 1980s -- Taking the photograph seriously: the 1980s continued -- Sculpture, installations or commodities? Around 1987 -- National art or global art? 1989 -- For a community, oneself or one's soul? The late 1990s -- The spectacular or the everyday? 200-2004 -- Storytelling or abstraction? 2005-2009 -- Auction art or Biennale art? 2010-2014 -- Art in the age of surveillance capitalism: 2015 onwards