[telxosser]

What great works of art have ever come from the State?

If anything, we need the ultra rich to fund this kind of thing based on their taste. That worked well in the past with the court musician/composer and patronage.

There are so many problems with this UBI idea. The medium is one that comes to mind. We have largely moved on from paint on canvas to video the way we moved on from sculpture in stone to paint on canvas.

Does the artist have the artistic freedom to start a youtube channel with the money? I would suspect not.

Most likely this goes to propping up outdated mediums of expression and will lack the complete freedom needed for a true artist to really express themselves.

Then of course you have to contend with those gaming the system to free roll by collecting old toilets from the trash to work on their homage to Duchamp masterpiece.

I suspect there is reason for the starving artist archetype.