Column | Guerrilla art is flourishing in Trump’s Washington Anti-Trump street artists and anonymous collectives are using an old protest technique in Washington: Sending messages into the void.

The arts have power.

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"In a city now dominated by giant banners celebrating Donald Trump, and with the president’s name affixed to buildings like the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the United States Institute of Peace, artists [engaged] in a dramatic battle for the survival of open and dynamic public space."

To be honest, musicians (of all genres) possess a way of communicating and listening that policymakers lack.

Let's do something about that.

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#musician #music #rescreativa

Film showing Satan in mosque sparks backlash as rights group defends artistic freedom A Moroccan human rights association pushed back Wednesday against calls to ban a film called "Thank You Satan," arguing that critics were demanding

The country of Morocco turns upside down over a film featuring a character who portrays Satan inside a mosque.

Meanwhile, in the USA, Tr$mp participates in marathon Bible reading AND DOES NOT BURST INTO FLAMES.

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Twenty years ago, Dalton Lee exposed them.

Now they’ve returned.

This time, they’re leaving clues just for him.

Think you can solve the murder faster?

Read Chapter One free. murderbecomes.com

#mysterythriller #bookstagram #architecture #manhattan #booksky

Artists of all disciplines: There are big, tall, terrible giants in the sky.

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Together we are enormous.

#creativefreedom #culturalleadership #civicleadership #authoritarianism #creators #rescreativa

Your work depends on knowing exactly what another person will do at exactly the right moment. You have trained your body, your timing, and your partnership to a standard that allows no margin for error.

That knowledge belongs somewhere it has never been asked for.

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Modernism for Dummies (Gift Article) Ten must-know texts and aesthetic philosophies of the 20th-century European architecture and design movement.

It's offensive that The @nytimes.com presented this as "for Dummies" and as part of a "How to be Cultured" series. Arrogance and elitism do not serve artists of any discipline.

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For the Musician Loading the Van at Midnight Your gift doesn't switch off when the set ends. There is no civic structure that recognizes that.

You changed the energy in a room full of people. That is not a small thing. It is exactly the kind of thing a healthy civic life depends on. People gathering. Feeling something together. Being briefly reminded that they share a world.

What you know belongs in public life.

Musicians, please read:

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This may be the most important Substack you will read this decade.

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You have trained for years to hold music, language, character, and emotion in a single sustained moment.

You understand precision and the discipline it takes to make something overwhelming look effortless.

Government doesn't.

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#opera #singer #musicaltheatre

Gluteus Maximus has more lip prints than Oscar Wilde's tomb.

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Artists, makers, and other creative practioners:

Let's build a creative commons so we can be prepared for whatever comes next in the USA.

Creativity is its own republic.

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To Writers, Poets, and Other Wordsmiths A new community is forming to bring creative voices into democracy. Help recover our history and shape the future. Your skills are the missing piece.

You know what a sentence can do. You know it the way a carpenter knows wood … from years of working against the grain of it.

You know that the right word can move someone from where they were to somewhere they couldn't have gotten alone.

Writers: Read and add your name to Res Creativa:

You have spent weeks in rehearsal learning to listen so completely that the person across from you has somewhere to go.

That is not performance. That is a model for how people work together at their best.

Your talent was built for more than the fourth wall.

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#actors

Sol Le Witt, "Wall Drawing 280," 1976; Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at SFMOMA; ©The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; photo: Katherine Du Tiel.

"Calder, Kelly, LeWitt: Fundamentals of Form Reimagined: The Fisher Collection at 10" opened Apr 18 at www.sfmoma.org

Ezekiel 25:17

Ya' think?

To Writers, Poets, and Other Wordsmiths A new community is forming to bring creative voices into democracy. Help recover our history and shape the future. Your skills are the missing piece.

Writers, Poets, and Other Wordsmiths: You know what a sentence can do.

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Nothing like sending a Substack newsletter to subscribers about writing and having a typo in the very first word of the subject header/headline.

Oh, and the word?

“Writers.”

We don't blame you.

We'll talk with you again when we have excised the cancer.

And we will.

What you know is valuable to democracy.

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You have spent years training your body to communicate what language cannot accomplish. You understand discipline, collaboration, and the precision that only comes from doing something thousands of times.

Those skills are needed in rooms where decisions are made.

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With this bunch, I'd prefer uncommon sense.

Res Creativa What Is Res Creativa?

Wynton Marsalis has described jazz as a “metaphor for democracy” because “it requires individual excellence to work in harmony with a collective group, mirroring democratic negotiation.”

Mr. Marsalis, we need your vibe with randallwhite.substack.com/p/res-creativa.

You made something real happen in a room full of people. You did it with skills that took years to build and a musical intelligence that doesn't switch off when the set ends.

There is no civic structure that recognizes that intelligence. Not one.

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#musician #music

You know that the image that outlasts the moment. And this doesn't happen by accident. It happens because someone trained their eye to find truth in a fraction of a second.

Your eye is needed somewhere it has never been invited.

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#photographer #photography

Martyrs Day July 5th — Honoring America's Civil Rights Martyrs Martyrs Day July 5th honors the brave Americans who gave their lives in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice. Learn their stories, attend events, and join the movement.

What an outstanding idea … especially since the concept for Martyrs Day was born during an author's book tour.

The arts have power.

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