OnLamp.com has this new posting discussing the question "is programming art?"

Art and hand-waving are two things that a lot of people consider to go very well together. Art and computer programming, less so. Donald Knuth put them together when he named his wonderful multivolume set on algorithms The Art of Computer Programming, but Knuth chose a craft-oriented definition of art (PDF) in order to do so.

He goes through a few other ideas from other people, some other perspectives on code, art, and the meshing of the two. Of course, there are constraints put on our art - there's only so much you can do with the certain tools that you have. He does, however, mention that that's half the fun - working with code, msssaging it, convincing it, and sometimes even tricking it into doing what you want...