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.
People today think the “arts” is anything pornographic