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Every Utterance: Patti Smith and My New Painting
I'd love Patti Smith to see this. If you know her, please let me know.
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Arlene Goldbard
A Culture of Possibility Podcast #52, Lori Lea Pourier on the First Peoples Fund and Indigenous Artists
NOTE: This post is to introduce you to the 52nd episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A Culture of Possibility.” It will be available…
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Arlene Goldbard
A Culture of Possibility Podcast #53, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso on Money
NOTE: This post is to introduce you to the 53rd episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A Culture of Possibility.” It will be available…
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Arlene Goldbard

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March 2025

The Pharaoh Inside: Releasing the Fear That Clogs the Body Politic
Twenty years ago, my friend Daniel Burstyn introduced me to an exercise created for Passover, the Jewish holiday which this year begins on the evening…
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Arlene Goldbard
A Culture of Possibility Podcast #50, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso on Welfare State International
NOTE: This post is to introduce you to the 50th episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A Culture of Possibility.” It will be available…
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Arlene Goldbard

February 2025

A Piece of the Action
I loved the original Star Trek because its brief morality plays captured the importance of culture. Every planet the Starship Enterprise visited had a…
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Arlene Goldbard
A Culture of Possibility Podcast #49, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso on A Culture of Possibility Now
NOTE: This post is to introduce you to the 49th episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A Culture of Possibility.” It will be available…
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Arlene Goldbard
Il Duce Redux: Art Under Trump
In the mid-twentieth century, it was understood that the leaders of a coup would reliably seize media outlets first, commandeering radio and later…
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Arlene Goldbard
Trump Thinks He’s God, but He’s Pharaoh
I’ve had the same conversation with many friends in the last few days: what is wrong with the Democrats? Why aren’t they responding to the Trump-Musk…
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Arlene Goldbard
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