How will COVID-19 impact the arts?

We're all still living in the pandemic

Despite the rush to return to crowded venues and the low numbers of people maintaining their immunisations.

Studies are presenting shocking results of the impact of the coronavirus on our bodies, such as this one.

Interestingly, the persistent cognitive impairment appears to be contained almost exclusively to the right hemisphere.

This means if you have lasting cognitive issues from long COVID they will affect your intuition, creativity and emotional reasoning more than your ability to do math or memorise prose, for example.

Along with the rise of AI, I wonder how this will play in the spheres of artistic production.