This editorial is ridiculous. The writer conflates Meryl Streep encouraging those upset over Trump's election to make art, with some ludicrous, non-existent declaration of war against Trump by the wildly diverse, completely heterogenous, multi-ethnic, multicultural, multi-polar arts world. 

But of course art is political. Does the writer think the poster of Obama and the word HOPE wasn't political? Was Guernica not political? Is John Corligiano's AIDS symphony not political? Or Hamilton, for Heaven's sake? 

The very idea that art should consist only of abstract concepts sterilized of meaning is on its face ludicrous. Just today in this paper we read two high-level South Korean government aides were arrested for compiling a blacklist of thousands of artists. Should the arts in the face of such an assault not respond? In the '30s Hollywood enforced exactly such a blacklist. 

The arts will do what they've always done. Speak truth to power, interpret the world & respond to issues of day