Explain the dominance of globalism in the contemporary arts

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The Internet, plane travel, and teleconferencing have enabled artists to work from anywhere in the world. Further, digital technology has connected artists with a larger audience and allowed the two to be in direct contact. Megasurveys and art fairs held regularly in Venice, Shanghai, Miami, and elsewhere invite the exchange of ideas and stimulate a vigorous multimillion-dollar commercial art market. The arts have become vehicles for global activism and for the expression of universally shared experience.
Artists in one part of the world can be influenced by the work of an artist on the opposite side of the globe. For example, many Chinese artists, trained in China's Central Academy, have had the opportunity to explore the major styles and techniques of their Western contemporaries, through international travel and mass electronic communication. When China hosted the 2008 Olympic Games, the architectural projects involved multinational participation and cooperation: the extraordinary Beijing airport—now the largest in the world—was the brainchild of the British architect Norman Foster; the National Stadium was designed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron in collaboration with Ai Weiwei; and the Aquatic Center was designed and built by a consortium of Australian architects and Chinese engineers.
Music as well, has been transformed by cultural interdependence and the willful fusion of disparate musical traditions. The influence of Arabic chant, Indian ragas, and Latino beat is evident in both jazz and classical music. Cuban brass punctuates contemporary rock, shimmering Asian drones propel New Age music. Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project involves the exchange of Western musical traditions with those of the ancient Silk Road, producing music that integrates radically different compositional forms, instruments, and performance styles.