Here's my review of the great Betty Parsons retrospective at Bard
A Show Recognizes Legendary Art Dealer Betty Parsons – As An Artist | Frieze
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler
@laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social
Writer, editor, educator, and Florida ex-pat. Author of The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest in America. Editor of vvvide.com. http://www.lo-b.com
Congratulations to all the New York City Public school parents, we made it. 
Noël Godin, a Belgian entertainer and anarchist who hurled pies at executives, politicians and celebrities as a form of protest, died last month. He was 80.
Noël Godin, Prankster Who Threw Pies at the Powerful, Dies at 80
Splattering figures like Bill Gates, Jean-Luc Godard and Bernard-Henri Lévy, he perfected the art of using whipped cream as a form of protest.
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Leadership at The New School has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the progressive university is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.
What’s Left of The New School? - Dissent Magazine
Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.
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When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
Across the country, students are preparing to return to school. But no new class will be welcomed at Hampshire College. @hannahgais.bsky.social reports on the fall of that grand pedagogical experiment—and the wider crisis facing higher education.
Class Dismissed | Hannah Gais
Private liberal arts schools were never going to kickstart the revolution. But the closure of Hampshire College further narrows the political imaginary.
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“Getting started is partly stalling, stalling by way of reading and of listening to music.” —Susan Sontag www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1...
Susan Sontag, The Art of Fiction No. 143
On Yeats’s assertion that one must choose between the life and the work: “Of course, if by life you mean life with other people, Yeats's dictum is true. Writing requires huge amounts of solitude.”
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I can't wait to celebrate the 🍃special edition🍃 of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES, coming September 22. I'm THRILLED that @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social is joining me for the launch on September 21st in NYC. 🥰 ptknitwear.com/events/51202 BOOK TOUR info, in formation! 🥳 www.katieholten.com/books#/https...
Lauren O'Neill-Butler@laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · last mo.I'll be in conversation about 🌳🌲, art, and activism with the great @katieholten.bsky.social on 9/21 at P&T Knitwear. Do come! (And let me know if you need help with tix.)
I'll be in conversation about 🌳🌲, art, and activism with the great @katieholten.bsky.social on 9/21 at P&T Knitwear. Do come! (And let me know if you need help with tix.)
Katie Holten presents The Language of Trees (Special Edition), with Lauren O’Neill-Butler | P&T Knitwear
P&T Knitwear is a family-owned independent bookstore, podcast studio, event space, and cafe on Manhattan's Lower East Side .
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Saar told NPR in 2006, "I'm the kind of person who recycles materials, but I also recycle emotions and feelings." She died days away from her 100th birthday. n.pr/3S1bnvB
Artist Betye Saar, who used repurposed objects to reclaim identity, has died at 99
Saar told NPR in 2006, "I'm the kind of person who recycles materials, but I also recycle emotions and feelings." She died days away from her 100th birthday.
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Never disappoints! Widow Jane mine in Rosendale, NY.
Didn't have time to send in your nomination? You're in luck! The deadline for 2026 Ann Snitow Prize has been extended to August 1. Visit annsnitowprize.com/nominations to learn more.
Nominations - The Ann Snitow Prize
Calendar and Requirements Nominations for the 2026 Prize will open May 15 and close August 1. Nominations are submitted via email to nominate@annsnitowprize.com and should include the following:• A 1 ...
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is this even real? like, where in Times Square would this go? it would have to be on private property, and I can't think of a single business with the lot space for it
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis monstrosity, the Charlie Kirk Monument, is set to be unveiled in New York’s Times Square on September 10. It was handcrafted by Italian sculptor Sergio Furnari. I give it 20 minutes.
Grade inflation is roughly universal, deeply corrupt, profoundly inequitable, and overall impossible to reset. All this disingenuous blather about what is to be done when the solution is right there: replace grades with narrative evaluations.
One of the planet's best artists, too little known.
Rememory Revealed - Richard Bell
YouTube video by biennaleofsydney
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I hopped on IG live to talk about Platner, working class wish fulfillment, and why the left and center are stress testing the civil rights electoral infrastructure. May we never speak of him again. God willing, we might end podcasts soon so that option is off the table.