(For educational purposes)
The art critic Robert Hughes on modern and contemporary art. For more on Hughes and his view of art, please read the article:
  / is-contemporary-art-really-just-a-dumb-show  
And for a book on the subject of understanding contemporary art:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08D55N268
A simple and straightforward explanation of the essential features of modern contemporary art - and by implication of art itself - presented in terms of the basic elements of human crafting as an expression of basic human needs and motivations.