Brett’s Substack
Brett EganMy personal Substack on arts, culture and society
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A Calling of Conscience
On January 14, 2026, I joined a group of artists, arts professionals, and others to explore the possibility of enhanced coordination at the sector level. Below are my remarks at the outset of that meeting.
Louise Nevelson, Bicentennial Daw...
Brilliant Colleagues, We face a Crisis of Collective Leadership
Iron balance. Date: 1600 – 1699, Rijksmuseum
In December, I joined Elizabeth Bowman at the Scene Room for a talk. Below are highlights from the transcript of that discussion.
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It's time for a collective response to the Trump administration's National Arts Policy.
This is the text of an Op Ed published in Artnet on November 1, 2025
President Lyndon B. Johnson presents American dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille with a bill signing pen at the ceremony commemorating the signing of the National Fou...
Video Killed the Radio Star -- And what we can do about it
Best read after revisiting the Buggles’ 1979 hit, Video Killed the Radio Star
Come with me for a few minutes on a journey back to 1987 – or, whatever year it was when you were ten. Go ahead, do the math, settle in, close your eyes if you w...
My remarks for the Doris Duke Foundation Creative Labor, Creative Conditions Convening
These remarks were issued at the outset of a panel I was invited to facilitate by the Doris Duke Foundation’s Creative Labor, Creative Conditions initiative.
I was joined onstage by Deborah Rutter, former President of the Kennedy Center a...
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