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Daybreak in Alabama

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Photo by Robert Ray/Associated Press Francine Rollins and Rondroka Long sat amid the rubble of their neighborhood in Tuscaloosa, Alabama Daybreak in Alabama by Langston Hughes When I get to be a composer I’m gonna write me some music about Daybreak in Alabama And I’m gonna put the purtiest songs in it Rising out of the ground like a swamp mist And falling out of heaven like soft dew. I’m gonna put some tall tall trees in it And the scent of pine needles And the smell of red clay after rain And long red necks And poppy colored faces And big brown arms And the field daisy eyes Of black and white black white black people And I’m gonna put white hands And black hands and brown and yellow hands And red clay earth hands in it Touching everybody with kind fingers And touching each other natural as dew In that dawn of music when I Get to be a composer And write about daybreak In Alabama. Please donate to tornado relief for the South at: American Red Cross And please buy the poem here: Knopf

A Call for China to Free Unjustly Imprisoned Artist Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei with musician Zuoxiao Zuzhou in the elevator when taken in custody by the police, Sichuan, China, August 2009 100 cm x 130 cm color photograph Courtesy Ai Weiwei and Christine König Galerie, Vienna “We can perhaps bet on art to win over tyrants. It is the world’s artists, particularly those courageous enough to stand up against authoritarianism, for whom we need to be concerned, and for whose safety we must fight.” - Salman Rushdie On April 3, 2011, the internationally recognized Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained by Chinese officials at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong, and his papers and computers were seized from his studio compound. The international arts community has rallied around Ai Weiwei's unjust incarceration and an online petition is being sponsored by museum directors and cultural figures across the globe: 'By using Ai Weiwei’s favored medium of “social sculpture,” we hope to hasten the release of our visionary friend." Please ta...

A Body of Sound in Arabic and English

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Gregg Chadwick A Body of Sound 30"x22" monotype on paper Courtesy the Julie Nester Gallery The writer Farouq Salloum recently sent me a poem inspired by my artwork The Body of Sound . Mr. Salloum's lilting words swirl and fix a passing image. The poem is posted below in the original arabic version and is followed by the english translation by Farouq Salloum. Thank you Farouq! من اسئلة الجسد والوساوس من زهرة الشهوات على وسادة السرير من زخارف الكلمات على رنين هواتفك حيث اتوهم انك تحتويني .. اتوهم انني احتويك انثى هابطه من جحيم اللذائذ وآدم حائر في ندم ايامه على الأرض هو عطرك الذي يملأ المكان كأنك هنا دائما نعيد ترف وحدتنا بالفصول .. بالجسد الحاني .. وبالغناء * A body of sound جسد الصوت لوحة Gregg Chadwick By: Farouq Salloum A Body of Sound -by Farouq Salloum You spring up from the magic space of my forest from the Questions of body and whispers from the flower of desires on the pillow from the ornementation of words on your phones calls as an Illusion where you comprise me ...

New Moby Song and Video: The Day

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Moby's new video for The Day features Heather Graham as an angelic being. Enjoy!

The Day: Moby and MoveOn Protest Budget Cuts on the Poor

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I Stand With My President

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Obama ~ Biden 2012