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Donald Trump

Visual Arts Review: Trump Likes Minimalism? Really?

All four budgets that Donald Trump and his sycophants sent to Congress had nada for the arts and humanities.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Donald Trump, Federal Buildings, Isamu Noguchi, Mark Favermann, Melania Trump

Book Review: “Hiding in Plain Sight” — Detailing the Malignancy of Donald Trump

According to Sarah Kendzior, “we have a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Donald Trump, Ed Meek, Flatiron Books, Hiding in Plain Sight, Sarah Kendzior

Visual Arts Feature: Go Out There and Shred the Vote!

Andrew Child pictures the candidates riding a skateboard, each in a slightly different pose and dressed in slightly different cool gear.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Presidental Candidates, skateboarding, Steve Provizer

Arts Commentary: Politics IS Performance — A Director Evaluates the Candidates

Politicians are forced to perform on a massive stage and under the fierce gaze of a thousand lenses, yet few have real skills in that arena.

By: Jeff Zinn Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Zinn, Kamala Harris, Mike Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg

Book Review: “The View From Flyover Country” — Sounding the Alarm

If you want to understand what is going on in the United States today, journalist Sarah Kendzior is a good resource.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Donald Trump, Sarah Kendzior, The View from Flyover Country

Book Review: “I Can’t Breathe” — Humanizing the Underclass

Follow almost any of these police brutality cases to their realpolitik conclusion and you will eventually work your way back to a monstrous truth.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Donald Trump, Ed Meek, Eric Garner, Erica Garner, I Can't Breathe, Matt Tabbi

Book Review: “No Is Not Enough” — Damned by Branding

Naomi Klein argues that the more anxious we are, the more vulnerable we are to politically opportunistic manipulation.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: branding, Donald Trump, Ed Meek, Haymarket Books, Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough, politics

Theater Commentary: Trump, Julius Caesar, and Political Farce

If the ballyhoo around the Public Theater’s Julius Caesar is a sign of the times, then we have a lot more than Trump to fear.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Donald Trump, Julius Caesar, Oscar Eustis, The Public Theater, William-Shakespeare

Poetry Review: Lyrical Outrage — Songs of the Resistance

Many of the poems live up to the title’s shout-out to Walt Whitman, cutting through the current political miasma with fresh wit, insight, and lyrical outrage.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Donald Trump, Matt Hanson, political poetry, Resist Much/ Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance, Spuyten Duyvil Press

Theater Commentary: Resist Trump? Boston’s Stages Opt Out

Resistance, at least in Boston theater, is futile.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: boston-globe, Boston-theater, Don Aucoin, Donald Trump, political-theater

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