- Spencer Kornhaber on tomorrow’s #J20 strike, Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech, and the debate over culture’s role in resisting Trump: “None of these rationales directly speaks to stopping the president-elect’s policies or removing him from office. They speak instead to an existential quandary triggered by the rise of someone who, to many in the art world, seems at odds with truth, free expression, and egalitarianism. An art strike, according to its supporters, is about reflection, recalibration, and ideological stress-testing in the name of more effectively wielding power in the years to come.” [The Atlantic]
- Common Field has started a running list of how member organizations are responding to the inauguration. Expect this to grow and grow. [Common Field]
- Now that UNTITLED has launched a new San Francisco edition and a slew of new art spaces opened in town, it seems the Fog art fair/week has come into its own. Is the art world’s calendar going to become even more crowded with yet another “obligatory” destination weekend? [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Um, according to Vogue, art-teacher-chic “has left the hovel of the upstate art studio and emerged as the uniform of some of the chicest patrons in the city.” [Vogue]
- Today and tomorrow is your last chance to submit your best, worst/most embarrassing Trump-like tweet to the Filthy Dreams @realdonaldtrump writing competition. We’ll be honest—we’ve been too shy to submit to this thus far — for both a fear of not being able to come up with some terrible enough, and a fear that we might succeed and have our name forever tied to something that terrible. We need to just get over this and submit. [Filthy Dreams]
- If you haven’t read this piece on the letters that are sent to President Barack Obama, definitely do it. It’s a really sweat story and reveals the character of our President. [New York Times Magazine]
- Christian Viveros-Faune takes a closer look at Donald Trump’s chosen painting for his post-swearing in luncheon, “The Verdict of the People” by George Caleb Bingham. It’s warts and all depiction of democracy in action—and of course is racist. [artnet News]
