#FallofFreedom Nov 21-22 Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

"Downtown L.A. landmarks are lighting up with massive portraits of Angelenos — including Edward James Olmos and George Takei — protesting recent immigration raids. The public art campaign asks the public: 'Am I next?'" laist.com/brief/news/l...

VANCOUVER: For the 9th edition of this Univerisity of British Columbia festival, ARTIVISM invites audiences to embrace the monster within, reclaiming monstrosity as a site of solidarity and resistance. www.arts.ubc.ca/events/event...

Artists and arts institutions will participate in Fall of Freedom, a nationwide call to creative action Nov. 21-22, intended to resist threats to free expression and due process due to governmental pressure, interference, and repression. Even in Texas, y'all! glasstire.com/2025/11/09/n...

Based on the testimonies of nearly 500 artists and arts workers, "Afraid to Speak Freely" reveals an epidemic of self-censorship across the sector. People are watching what they say. Many fear professional exile for stepping outside the new ideological orthodoxy. MORE: www.freedominthearts.com

BRUSSELS: "Established in a former bank in 2021, RESET also oversees the visual arts platform RESET Atelier, the music creation hub RESET Studios and Abrupt Festival." European cultural institutions are beginning to tumble under political policies. ra.co/news/83959

"These works proved that art can challenge prejudice, demand recognition, and tell essential truths that statistics or politics alone cannot." www.harlemworldmagazine.com/the-harlem-r...

"Works such as Free Expression by Condé + Beveridge frankly express apprehension regarding free trade and visualize its potential impact on the art community, revealing concerns about American cultural imperialism." thewalrus.ca/the-wild-pro...

In The Little Match Girl, Hans Christian Andersen warns what happens when empathy grows cold. This reflection for creators explores how artists can use imagination as warmth—refusing to walk by indifferently while others strike small flames of hope. open.substack.com/pub/abbetuck...

Artists and other creators: Remember the story of The Little Match Girl? Read it in a new light later today. Subscribe to Abbetuck's free Substack feed: substack.com/@abbetuck?ut...

LOS ANGELES: Getty Center presents "How to Be a Guerrilla Girl," Nov. 18, 2025–Apr. 12, 2026. The exhibition offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look into the inner workings of the feminist art collective. heysocal.com/2025/11/03/g...

"If the history of protest art and art as protest tells us anything, it’s that art can be created anywhere and belongs everywhere." www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/cons...

LOS ANGELES: Beyond the Streets presents "Shepard Fairey: Out of Print," a landmark exhibition devoted to the artist’s lifelong dialogue with printmaking. Nov. 15, 2026-Jan. 11, 2026. Obey ... and go. stupiddope.com/2025/11/shep...

“Faith represents patience, focus, and long-term vision. Fear represents shortcuts, panic, and distraction. The difference between the two decides whether an artist burns bright or builds forever.” vocal.media/beat/beyond-...

When the world grows dark, the artist’s task is the same as Raven’s: to find the light, free it from its keepers, and scatter it so others can see. In this Substack post about creative defiance, discover what artists and other creators can learn from the trickster who liberated the sun:

"Rosalía Torres-Weiner, who identifies as an ‘artivist,’ travels to various locations in North Carolina with a mobile exhibition that spreads cultural heritage and expression." english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

La Llorona’s haunting legend reveals what every artist knows: the pain of destroying our own creations. This Día de los Muertos, honor the work you’ve drowned, forgive yourself, and create again. MORE ⬇️

@xrglobal.bsky.social is a global, non-violent movement that often uses arts activism (like "die-ins') to raise awareness about climate and ecological emergencies. Abbetuck supports deploying all disciplines of the arts for creative resistance and social change.

"A protest-band clarinetist, got arrested, spent two nights in jail, and is now facing a felony charge for assaulting a federal officer might seem absurd if it weren’t so serious — and so emblematic of the ways in which the Trump administration is seeking to criminalize dissent." Music has power.

In 2016, an Indianapolis Jiffy Lube location fell victim to graffiti. Instead of continuously covering it up, the company had a better idea. It got in touch with the Indianapolis Arts Council and identified artists who wanted to have their work displayed for all to see. fox59.com/indiana-news...

Some of our friends in southern Arizona may be especially interested in this upcoming event blending arts activism and wildlife conservation, scheduled for November 15.

King Midas got everything he wanted ... and lost everything that mattered. Here's a modern parable for #artists of all disciplines who #resist oppression and want to keep their work alive.  tr.ee/7fFJSc

This is beautiful. www.orartswatch.org/what-we-hold...

"Greenpeace activists have installed prison bars around the statues of three iconic protesters in Parliament Square to highlight the UK government’s crackdown on the right to protest." This is #artsactivism. www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/monumen...

"The One Lawndale Arts and Activism Incubator (OLAAI) empowers Black and Brown youth in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood by blending art, activism and racial healing..." www.austinweeklynews.com/2025/10/29/l...

Can art represent the heart both scientifically and emotionally? www.su.ac.za/en/faculties...

Proving once again that there is no accounting for taste. www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...

AMSTERDAM, NL: "Works include pieces smuggled from Russia and Ukraine, highlighting the risks artists face under surveillance, exile and war." p.dw.com/p/4zMAa

Federal funding for nonprofit literary arts programs has been in dire straits. Now, seven deep-pocketed philanthropic foundations are coming together to help fill in the gaps. literaryartsfund.org/grants/

Elder artists and creators: You don’t owe anyone your exhaustion, even in these tyrannical times. Wisdom now lies in knowing when enough is enough. open.substack.com/pub/abbetuck... #ancientwisdom #artisticresistance #creative #authoritarianism

"Corporate giving to theatres, long in decline due to shifts in attention toward social and political causes, has plummeted in recent years. Meanwhile the Trump administration and its enablers in Congress seem intent on decimating federal funding of the arts."

"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." The @consilium.europa.eu is doing what the Trump administration wouldn't know how to do ... if it wanted to. We wonder how The Council of Europe feels about the degredation of freedoms in the USA. The Council has our respect.

This is lovely to see. www.rferl.org/a/russian-em...

This could come in handy. Saúl Baeza Argüello, PhD, a researcher in The Netherlands, "explores how identity prostheses (designed tools that reshape how we present ourselves) can be used to resist and rethink algorithmic surveillance." www.tue.nl/en/news-and-...

Are you an "elder" in the creative activist universe? Are you on Substack? Join us there and receive more of this message tomorrow. open.substack.com/pub/abbetuck...

“All Hallow's Eve,” José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican, Aguascalientes, Mexico 1852-died Mexico City, Mexico 1913, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jack Lord.

"If the city has become hostile, then the runner becomes its antidote. Running, in this context, stops being just physical training — it becomes an act of nonviolent protest... "It’s not about breaking rules — it’s about creative resistance." Welcome to the resistance, runners!

Don’t meet power on its terms. You don’t need to be bigger or louder. You need to be sharper, stranger, more inventive. Ancient wisdom on creativity as the weapon that breaks power's monopoly: open.substack.com/pub/abbetuck...

Creativity has always promised liberation, but history reminds us that imagination can just as easily be weaponized. From propaganda’s golden age to today’s algorithmic persuasion, beauty has often served power more than truth. Learn more in Abbetuck's next e-newsletter. Subscribe now (it's free):

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The survival of American culture will be up to individual artists and independent artist organizations. This won't be the first time in the history of humans. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

This essay from Abbetuck is written for artists, writers and thinkers who sense that old stories carry durable knowledge that modern culture often forgets. open.substack.com/pub/abbetuck...

Narcissists need oxygen. Let's give our energy to altruists, instead. The arts can do that.

"What America is experiencing now is the feature presentation, a systematic, full-frontal assault on our nation’s cultural and intellectual life." We wonder how French president Emmanuel Macron feels about the cultural and intellectual life of France. He has our respect. time.com/7327987/trum...

We recently spoke with the CEO of an architecture firm. He has resigned himself to the idea that AI will soon replace the need for architects. How tragic. www.archdaily.com/1035178/how-...

Since 2023, Texas officials have often restricted or criticized liberal-leaning forms of expression. Fire calls the recent changes in Texas an overcorrection. We wonder how Kentucky Governor @andybeshearky.bsky.social feels about higher ed and free speech. He has our respect.

"The Trump administration’s proposed compact with colleges would violate academic freedom and freedom of expression in three broad areas." We wonder how Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney feels about universities. He has our respect. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

"The leader of a $183 billion AI company found himself reassuring the current administration that his company’s AI chatbot wouldn’t spread 'ideological bias.'" We wonder how Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo feels about AI. She has our respect. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...