With satellite and HD technology now bringing live performances at the Met to locations around the world, many other arts events are jumping on the band wagon. Soon, for example, we'll see the LA symphony live and King Lear from London live.
This won't happen any time soon, but here is an opportunity to redefine what local arts groups do. If we can see the major canon in HD from the best arts groups in the world, then this releases local arts groups from the responsibility of performing the major works -- and instead can focus on more development and performance of local and regional artists. In the past, the local arts mantra has been something like, Okay, you aren't living in New York but we will show you some of the plays you'd see if you were in New York. But if we CAN see plays in New York, as more and more we will be able to, via the new technology, then local arts groups can give us the single thing that New York cannot, which is to say, the work of LOCAL ARTISTS. This can be a great boon to new arts development!
Well, dream on. But I think it's a great idea, just as I think my idea of disbanding all arts funding institutions and replacing them with arts LOTTERIES, adding more money by decimating administrative costs. And an arts lottery also removes POLITICS from the process, which drives it today. Believe me, it's true, I've been on panels that decide these things and politics rules. An arts lottery would be fair, exciting and surprising. I think better new art would result.
In summary, here are two ideas that would hugely improve the arts scene by invigorating new arts work but neither has a chance in hell, in this corporate world, of ever happening.
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