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The New York Times Just Released This EPIC Anti-Trump Ad To Air At The Oscars pic.twitter.com/OTm1r9FtUr — RogelioGarcia Lawyer (@LawyerRogelio) February 26, 2017

by Gregg Chadwick Today as the trump administration and its henchmen are about to overrun the water protectors at Standing Rock, I am moved to repost this post from July. My thoughts are with the Standing Rock protesters today. They've defended land and water bravely. Today at 2pm they will be overrun. Last night many of their tents and structures were burned in defiance. We must continue to resist. Thank you🙏🏽  to all those who protect the water and thus our nation. #NoDAPL I often think about the rivers, lakes, towns and cities we have named after the original Americans. The absence of most of their culture in our increasingly mini-malled landscape points to the brutal erasure of Indian tribes across the United States. The dominant culture in America seems to continually romanticize, while at the same time ostracize, the rich history of Native Americans. Gregg Chadwick Salish Sea 30"x24" oil on linen 2014  Two years ago on a technicolor blue day, I s...

Trento Night (Una Notte a Trento) 24"x18" oil on linen 2016 Currently on view at Saatchi Art until June 1, 2017 #art #saatchiart #italy #trento #glamour A post shared by Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) on Feb 20, 2017 at 9:12pm PST Thank you to everyone at Saatchi Art for a marvelous opening on Thursday night and for everyone who braved the oncoming storm to get out and visit the show. Gregg Chadwick 's painting Trento Night at the Mark-Making Opening at Saatchi Art in Santa Monica, February 16, 2017 

by Gregg Chadwick Far from the haze of Milan, stars glimmer in the clear night sky over Trento.  The city hums on this sultry night.   Trento at night is like a Fellini film: an otherworldly beauty tinged with memory. An elegant woman in a black slip of a dress slides by silently. Only the sound of the water flowing from Neptune's fountain can be heard. The actress Francesca Neri was born in Trento. Perhaps she is the siren gliding by us?  Much of Italy often feels like a movie set. Intimate squares and piazzas backed by stage lit cathedrals and frescoed corridors.  As if in a film cut, the darkened piazza is now lit by a swarm of electronic fireflies. A group of university students just left a nearby ice cream shop and their cellphone's blue glow creates a path across the square. Soon the quiet is broken as phones ring and calls are answered. I think of the innumerable conversations that have filled this spot. It is as if time has stopped. Almost perceptible sh...

by Gregg Chadwick Norman Rockwell The Problem We All Live With 36” x 58” oil on canvas 1963 Collection The Norman Rockwell Museum With the insensitive political cartoon posted today by Glenn McCoy lampooning Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges, I again am drawn to think about this iconic Norman Rockwell painting.  The Problem We All Live With  depicts Ruby as a young girl on her way to first grade after the school board mandated the desegregation of two New Orleans schools in 1960. Six year old Ruby Bridges was escorted by Federal Marshals to New Orleans' William Frantz Public School as its first African American student, ushering in the integration of the local public school system. Painted in 1963 when young Ruby's courage was still becoming global news, Rockwell created a cinematic scene that brings the viewer directly into the moment. We must ask ourselves - do we walk with Ruby and help protect her? Or are we the howling mob tossing rotten produce and f...

Bruce Springsteen wrote a song for the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone , and offered it to the director Chris Columbus. However, the film studio Warner Brothers turned the song down and it has languished in the vaults ever since. Backstreets Magazine recently ran a letter from Columbus agonizing over the song and his love of Bruce. Read the letter and listen to the song. What might have been... Fifteen years ago,  on November 16, 2001,  Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone  was released. Being in a bit of a nostalgic mood, I checked into Backstreets (which I do every day, sometimes two or three times a day). I saw the interview with David Heyman and wanted to respond to it. David got most of the facts right, but there is a little more detail that I wanted to share with you guys. As a kid who grew up in an Ohio factory town, my future looked pretty bleak. Both of my parents were factory workers, and it certainly looke...

Our #WhatIReallyReallyWant film starts the 2016 #SocialGood summit with some killer GIRL POWER action! #2030Now pic.twitter.com/hb82yeXfuq — The Global Goals (@TheGlobalGoals) September 18, 2016

@greggchadwick in his #artstudio for #sneakpeekweek Come out Friday - Sunday to #connectandcollect #laartists #directfromthestudio #Chadwick will be #moderating a #panel of #artists #writers #actors and #directors on the #topic #artinthetimeoftrump #fundthenea #artsaveslives #artliveshere A photo posted by More Art Here (@moreartheresmas) on Jan 26, 2017 at 9:42pm PST More at:  http://www.greggchadwick.com/Gregg_Chadwick/Art_In_the_Time_of_Trump.html

Mary Tyler Moore, 1936-2017. https://t.co/untjNkK5IM pic.twitter.com/2oomydy5IU — Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) January 25, 2017

Gregg Chadwick The Future Is Woke 40”x30” oil on linen  2017 With millions of others, I marched this weekend in the #WomensMarch. Our crowd in Los Angeles numbered around 750,000.  The Future Is Woke  is the first in a series of paintings exploring this time of change. Artists often use their creations as a sort of reflecting device that mirrors and focuses the viewers attention on social and political change.  As Marvin Gaye sang so poignantly- “What’s going on.” As we carry the spirit of the Women's March forward: On Saturday, January 28th 2017, from 1-3pm at the Santa Monica Art Studios, a vibrant panel discussion on Art in the Time of Trump will be held.  Santa Monica Art Studios, 3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica CA 90405 Confirmed Panelists: Yareli Arizmendi - Actress/Screenwriter  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0034976/ Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn - Senior Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books...

I WANT THIS ENTIRE SPEECH ON A SHIRT https://t.co/jt85sAGs14 — tina (@biebersarcher) January 21, 2017

Amazing rooftop view of the Women's March in Washington DC. Via @KerryGFleming #WomensMarch pic.twitter.com/xn0BTcPaR3 — Greg Hogben (@MyDaughtersArmy) January 22, 2017

by Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick "A Walk With Obama: January 20, 2017" 18"x24" oil on linen 2017 #art #POTUS #beauty #change #hope Rain covers the Los Angeles basin this morning as President Obama leaves office. I want to take a moment to thank you, Barack Obama, for 8 years of hard work and commitment to affordable health care for all, LGBTQ equality, transgender rights, environmental protections, and so much more. Today and tomorrow and forever, I honor Barack Obama who led this country with wisdom, dignity, and compassion. 

Gregg Chadwick An August Dream 18"x36" oil on linen 2009 "If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, whatever you do keep moving forward." ~ #MLK #MLKDAY pic.twitter.com/KK6u2jzOWE — Khary Penebaker (@kharyp) January 16, 2017

by Gregg Chadwick Happy New Year 2017! It’s raining this New Year’s Eve in Santa Monica. The haunting voice of Gil Scott-Heron singing  Winter In America  fills our living room. My thoughts trace a circuit from this moment back to an earlier New Year in Japan as 1989 rolled into 1990. I was in Tokyo following the spirit and artworks of Ando Hiroshige. That winter in Japan, I clutched a large volume by Henry D. Smith II and Amy G. Poster on Hiroshige’s  One Hundred Famous Views of Edo   and trekked on rail, foot and car across the historic core of what was Edo era Tokyo. Sponsored by the Nippon Seiyu-Kai's 30th Anniversary Award, I endeavored to create a series of new paintings inspired by Hiroshige’s woodcuts. Time, place, memory, mystery and lore all mixed in my artworks. Gregg Chadwick Passing View of Shohei Bridge  30"x24" oil on linen 1990  Today, on the Brooklyn museum’s Tumblr page, Alison Baldassano posted a phot...