| No Images? Click here  Hey Culture Shift readers, we have great news! Our Culture Shift email will be joining forces with our Entertainment email so we can send you more arts, culture and entertainment stories five days a week. Our Entertainment Editor, Lauren Moraski, will send you exclusives, scoops, cultural context and the stories all of your friends are talking about starting on November 20. Not interested? Simply unsubscribe below. Otherwise, we’ll see you in your inbox again soon!  According to Merriam-Webster, English philologist Robert Nares reported in 1822 that the word "cotton" was used to mean "to succeed." He guessed that this usage came from "the finishing of cloth, which when it cottons, or rises to a regular nap, is nearly or quite complete."  As one of his last presidential acts, Barack Obama chose a queer, black artist as his official portraitist. Kehinde Wiley’s colleagues and peers explain why the choice was fated.“[Wiley] literally is the first person I know of, throughout the history of painting, who is appropriating the entire history of art ― from cave painting on ― and bending it to his will,” Sean Kelly, founder of Sean Kelly Gallery, the gallery that represents Wiley’s work, told HuffPost. “The whole history of art becomes a narrative about black presence.”  In this time of darkness, largely caused by a Donald Trump–shaped shadow, flickers of light are important. If only we knew where to find them. It’s been a year since the momentous 2016 election and the anointing of a new White House resident. We figured it’s as good a time as ever to revisit the slew of anti-Trump art that’s cropped up in New York City, giving those who didn’t vote for our current president a dose of solidarity. What follows here is a guide for the angry-but-still-adventurous in NYC who are willing to trek through the city’s boroughs for an in-person glimpse at protest art.   Perhaps the most representative phrase for a year in opposing Trump is, fittingly, “Now more than ever.” Over the past 12 months, the media, institutions and public figures have worn the phrase out, leaving “now more than ever” a brittle husk, a cliché that conjures an eye roll rather than a sense of urgency.After the election of President Donald Trump, we needed the arts now more than ever; we needed a free press now more than ever; we needed comedy now more than ever; we needed political dialogue now more than ever. Each individual cause or pursuit that seemed distasteful or trivial in the new state of political panic had to be defended, and each time the defense was the same: The very environment that makes this seem unimportant is the reason that it’s important.
 At 84 years old, the late “My Secret Garden” author was a feminist erotic pioneer. “We’re as hidden as our clitorises,” she wrote. “By the time we’ve found them, hidden away up there, we’re guilty at having located them.”  In the year since Donald Trump’s election, American art has adopted barbed subtexts. Suddenly, so much of the popular culture we consume is a corollary to the social and political implications raised by the melodrama of the current administration.For the most part, we won’t have a clear picture of Hollywood’s artistic response to Trump until 2018 or even 2019, when the projects now in development and production come to fruition. But at least one medium has seen an immediate uptick in artists commenting on our polarizing current events: short films.  It might not be snowing, but this list of recommended reading from 2015 is worth revisiting this weekend.
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