But Is it Art?

Does a good back story turn an interesting creation into "art"? What IS art? The British founder and curator of the Museum of Everything has staged a retrospective of the works of an American who died in 2005 at the age of 61. While her story may not turn her creations into art (and maybe they already are), it certainly makes a difference in how we view them: http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/10/outsider-art