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
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 · 2w agoI'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.
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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 · last mo.This 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
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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.
When did big movie theaters start to “welcome” patrons “to their escape” in the ad right before the film starts? It’s so creepy. And yes, life has really become that bad in the US...aka escapism central.
The paperback seen in good company on the new & notable table @ Books Are Magic, BK.
Bea Nettles (b. 1946) Photographs from The Mountain Dream Tarot, 1975, Hand-painted black-and-white photographic prints From the amazing Tarot show at The Morgan!
Appreciated this thorough piece and the shoutout re: NCF, esp. this line on the “utterly satanic ‘transformation’ of the I. M. Pei dormitories that will make the modernist masterpiece look like a bus terminal.”
Harper’s Magazine@harpers.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Questions of just how much reading and writing students actually do, which had hardly come up during my time in Gainesville, are uncomfortable, but they concern the essence of education.” Ann Manov on civic centers and the future of the liberal arts. harpers.org/archive/2026...
Is there any hope that Vanderbilt will not completely gut CCA when it takes over next year? I'm so tired of seeing incredible schools close—but aren't we all.
I had the pleasure to write an essay for this show's forthcoming catalogue. If you're near Corning, NY, go see! whatson.cmog.org/exhibitions-...
Tough Stuff: Women in the American Glass Studio | Corning Museum of Glass
Tough Stuff: Women in the American Glass Studio is the first survey exhibition of work by exceptional women artists working in glass in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s—the breakthrough de...
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"The school’s administration seems to care much more about political posturing than it does about their actual lives." #Florida Gov Ron DeSastrous' right-wing makeover of New College gets a hilariously critical eyeroll from John Oliver. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... via @us.theguardian.com
John Oliver on New College’s Maga takeover: ‘More about political posturing than students’ lives’
The late-night host detailed how the Florida liberal arts college became a testing ground for a rightwing agenda
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Thank you @lastweektonight.com from an NC alum. So glad you tapped into this treasure trove of grift. The alumni community definitely needed a cathartic laugh at this point too; along with the 😭 in our 🍻! 😒
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver@lastweektonight.com · 2mo agoThis week’s main story is about a small liberal arts college in Florida, why Ron DeSantis decided to take it over three years ago, how it’s been going since then, and when we can all expect Russell Brand to finally appear at their “cancel cancel culture center.”
