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Nov 14, 2024 | 
dissidentmuse.substack.com | Robert Adams |Walter Darby Bannard |Franklin Einspruch |Heather Shayne Blakeslee
, I don’t know if I belong to a political party anymore. So I’m throwing a party instead. “We don’t care who you voted for, just bring a dish to the potluck.”Richard Whittaker, City Arts Funding Skipped Established Arts Organizations. Will They Survive? “Arts groups, most of whom could not afford professional grant writers, were fighting with an unclear rubric and no guidance on the scoring matrix, especially when it came to diversity.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
dissidentmuse.substack.com | Robert Adams |Walter Darby Bannard |Franklin Einspruch
The prodigiously published, widely feted, and extensively exhibited Robert Adams published Art Can Help in 2017, to assert that “It is a responsibility of artists to pay attention to the world, pleasant or otherwise, and to help us live respectfully in it” (p. 9).
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
dissidentmuse.substack.com | Robert Adams |Walter Darby Bannard |Franklin Einspruch |Dudley Newright
In 2016, Donald Trump won the presidency. Weeks prior, the United Kingdom overwhelmingly voted for Leave.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
dissidentmuse.substack.com | Robert Adams |Walter Darby Bannard |Franklin Einspruch
Lily Tang Williams, a candidate seeking to represent New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District, embodies the American Dream in its purest form. Born to illiterate parents in Sichuan Province, she grew up in the poverty, privation, and dictatorial chaos of China under Mao. Through enormous perseverance, she graduated from Fudan University Law School in Shanghai and later joined its faculty. She came to the United States with $100 in her pocket and $1200 in debt to an American sponsor.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
dissidentmuse.substack.com | Marco Grassi |Walter Darby Bannard |Franklin Einspruch
If you didn’t have the opportunity to see my first solo exhibition in New York City back in June, or did and want to relive it, kindly have a look at the digital version, with complete works, installation images, statements, and press links. Once again I want to thank my paid subscribers for making both the physical and digital versions of the show possible. I’m grateful for you. Content at DMJ is free but paid subscriptions keep it coming. Please consider one for yourself and thank you for reading.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
dissidentmuse.substack.com | Marco Grassi |Walter Darby Bannard |Franklin Einspruch
It is easier by far to write a negative review than a positive one. A negative review gives you a dramatic conflict to work with. In the case of Marco Grassi’s In the Kitchen of Art, at least as of the end of Part 2, he hardly has had reason to utter a complaint. The prose delivers drama anyway because Grassi fully comprehends the stakes of creating and displaying art.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
dissidentmuse.substack.com | Marco Grassi |Walter Darby Bannard |Franklin Einspruch
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Just in time for your afternoon commute or studio session: I’m pleased to introduce Dissident Musings, the podcast of Dissident Muse. The inaugural episode is an interview with J.F. Martel, whose Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action we examined inthreeparts in the Asynchronous Studio Book Club. I hope you enjoy it. Content at DMJ is free but paid subscriptions keep it coming.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
dissidentmuse.substack.com | Walter Darby Bannard |Franklin Einspruch
Greetings from Stickypants, New Hampshire, where we’re the proud recipients of all the weather usually in the American south, displaced upwards by Hurricane Beryl. For a week we’ve been promised a five-hour thunderstorm that in theory will cool things off a touch. Every 90 minutes or so, experts revise the forecast so that the storm arrives an hour later and shortens in duration until it disappears and a new storm is predicted some hours hence.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
dissidentmuse.substack.com | Walter Darby Bannard |Franklin Einspruch
I debated whether to post this out of respect for my friends and family who remain of the opinion that a second Trump term would constitute a collapse into fascism, as if we weren’t already soaking in nihilist Jew-hating autocracy. But I had a minor thing published in a minor way, and I have a policy of neither pretending to be something nor pretending not to be something. You may have heard by now that Biden’s debate performance against Trump a few weeks ago was lackluster.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
dissidentmuse.substack.com | Walter Darby Bannard |Franklin Einspruch
Zachary Small, Amid Challenges, Small New York City Museums Are Closing Their Doors. “[Laura] Mattioli, the Center for Italian Modern Art’s founder, said that changes at foundations had made it harder for her small institution to apply for grants. After the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, she said, many grant-making organizations appeared to require that exhibition proposals include elements of diversity and inclusion.
