I guess it means on what you mean by “art”.
What the left considers “art” is not art by standards.
Writing posts on FR can be an art.
The left has been trying to redefine art by its “standards”, or rather lack of them. Allowing the left to define things is the problem, and its far from just art.
They are using the schools and media and pop-culture to redefine everything. We don’t need to “abandon” anything for it to disappear.
The whole country has abandoned “the arts”. I bet most people under 18 have never tried to listen to classical music, for instance.
Since I teach acting to young opera students, I can tell you that young people certainly have not abandoned the arts. These kids are desperate for a theatre career and if you walk along B’way around Lincoln Center, you’ll see a parade of beautiful young girls - walking like ducks, their hair tied in neat little buns - and you know they are ballet dancers training for ABT and what’s left of City ballet. David Koch owns what used to be called the State Theatre - at least he refuses to abandon the arts to the left.