Great article. The arts are clearly dying in the US and across the modern world. What passes for art today, in many domains, is largely driven by a self-indulgent egotism on the part of the artists themselves and their sponsors. It has to be a part of some grand narrative think-piece, instead of simply letting the art speak for itself. DEI is simply a species of this delusion.

Look at the monstrosities that are the MLK statue in Boston and the new Medusa-like creature that now adorns the top of the NYC courthouse.

I wrote about modern art and our new culture of bas taste here: https://www.gordoncomstock.com/p/mlk-modern-art-and-the-culture-of