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Lauren O'Neill-Butler

@laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, educator, and Florida ex-pat. Author of The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest in America. Editor of vvvide.com. www.lo-b.com

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gertrude Abercrombie (1909 - 1977), Toddy, Possim and Christine, 1954, Oil on Masonite, 8 x 10 inches Up now at Andrew Eldin Gallery in a wonderful show about women mystics. Not to be missed!!
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A great Nancy Spero (on view now in a tribute show for Mel Edwards at Alexander Grey Gallery)
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tempted to put this on my syllabi
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Struggle struggle struggle to get to class on time and then all my students are 20 mins late 😱
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Long live the short form! Lisa Hsiao Chen reviewed THWACK at the Brooklyn Army Terminal for Vide (www.vvvide.com)
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can a review be less than a paragraph? I'm doubtful.
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jon Hendricks in a 1970 interview with Global Village titled “The Judson Three: Faith Ringgold, Jon Hendricks, and Jean Toche” currently on view at 80WSE.
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
There's a lot to say on this, but top of mind: I love it when people make smart work critiquing what needs to be critiqued, as in this brilliant documentary.
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
THANK YOU NYC! Last night was gorgeous. The book SOLD OUT! Sorry to everyone who wasn't able to get a copy. More books are on the way to P&T Knitwear! It was wonderful to celebrate with you all. Special thanks to @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social for her thoughtful questions on THE LANGUAGE OF TREES 🌿
Photo of an event in a bookstore. Two white women sit on stage with bookshelves behind and to the side. Large screen above shows photos and a sign says SAVE THE TREES. The book being celebrated, The Language of Trees, is propped up in front of them on a small table surrounded by sunflowers and other flowers. 

Photo by Dillon Cohen in P&T Knitwear, New York City.Photo of an event in a bookstore with two white women sitting on stage. The pic was taken just before the talk began and is an action shot showing the author adjusting the microphone and the bookstore host doing a mic check. Book shelves behind. A large screen above shows a banner for the event. Monday, September 21, P&T Knitwear. Katie Holten presents The Language of Trees in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler. Sunflowers and a copy of the book are displayed on a small table between the two women.

Photo by Becky Kraemer, Tin House | ZandoPhoto of last night's book launch celebrating the launch of The Language of Trees (special edition) at P&T Knitwear in NYC. The author, Katie Holten, is wearing a pale green face mask, white t-shirt and black linen trousers, black compression leggings and black flip flops. She's holding a large bookmark with the Tree Alphabet, a gift for everyone who got a signed copy of the book. The book is propped up on a small table in front of her, with a bunch of sunflowers. 

Photo by Dillon Cohen. Annie Lennox in the background. P&T Knitwear identity is bright red and yellow with chunky font. Two of their books prop up The Language of Trees.Photo of two white women in a bookstore looking at the camera. One woman is sitting down at a large table signing books, she wears a pale green face mask and white t-shirt. The other woman wears a long olive green coat and is leaning on the table and smiling. They are surrounded by bookshelves. 

Photo by Dillon Cohen in P&T Knitwear in NYC.
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tonight! If you need a seat, lmk!
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Joys of Queens, NY
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Here's a thread with a few more events I'm partaking in this fall, in addition to the last one I posted with the great @katieholten.bsky.social. Do join if you can!
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A new, special edition of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES drops this day next week, Tuesday, September 22. Please join us to celebrate at P&T Knitwear in NYC—the day before—Monday, Sep 21, doors open 6.30pm. Come celebrate with me and @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social 🥂 www.katieholten.com/books#/the-l...
Photo of me leaning against a pine tree in late afternoon sunshine. I'm holding a copy of the new special edition of my book, The Language of Trees. It's a hardcover with forest green cloth cover and gold embossed forest drawing. The title is embossed in white: THE LANGUAGE OF TREES. How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds, and Rewild Our Lives. Katie Holten.

I'm wearing a black v-neck t-shirt and you can't see it but I'm barefoot and have togs (swim suit) underneath, ready to go for a swim in the sea. I have a little smile but I'm also exhausted. wish me luck on this book tour adventure! 

Photo by Dillon Cohen
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wendy Eisenberg & David Grubbs last nite at the Kitchen in Josiah McElheny’s show Instrument Object thekitchen.org/on-view/inst...
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's my review of the great Betty Parsons retrospective at Bard
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A Show Recognizes Legendary Art Dealer Betty Parsons – As An Artist | Frieze
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Congratulations to all the New York City Public school parents, we made it. 
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/09/2026
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.
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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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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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.
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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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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 31/08/2026
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.
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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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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.rockawayfilmfestival.org
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Rockaway Film Festival
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Where do I buy this in nyc? www.cocchi.it/en/wines/bar...
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Barolo Chinato - Giulio Cocchi
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Liv Coleman @livcolemanfl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
👀
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New College of Florida is spending nearly $1 million on outside PR consultants
Public records reveal New College of Florida awarded no-bid contracts to two outside PR consultants with political ties to Governor DeSantis and college President Richard Corcoran, even as the school ...
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Aesthetically terrifying."
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
End of an era
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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Getting started is partly stalling, stalling by way of reading and of listening to music.” —Susan Sontag www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1...
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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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Liv Coleman @livcolemanfl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🔥🔥🔥 From New College alum Mike Sanderson www.tallahassee.com/story/opinio...
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New College isn't America First when spending our money | Opinion
New College of Florida has lavished millions of taxpayer dollars on attracting international students to boost its enrollment.
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Sunflower report
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Florida woman
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Meanwhile…
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Heaven
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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...
Invitation to a book launch on Monday, September 21. Doors 6.30pm, Talk 7pm. at P&T Knitwear, 180 Orchard Street, New York City.

Katie Holten presents The Language of Trees (Special Edition) in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler.

Tickets $10 or purchase of event book. 

The book cover for The Language of Trees is on the left, a forest green cover with drawing of forest in gold. Photos of two white women on the left. Subtitle of the new edition: How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds, and Rewild Our Lives

The graphic has eye-catching bright red and yellow font.
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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.)
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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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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...
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He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway.
The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/07/2026
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
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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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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Mushroom foraging report
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Never disappoints! Widow Jane mine in Rosendale, NY.
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If in Stockholm—spotted at Nord Books @nordbooks.bsky.social
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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.
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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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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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.
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s contact form for misogynistic trolling!! So good.
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
One of the planet's best artists, too little known.
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Rememory Revealed - Richard Bell
YouTube video by biennaleofsydney
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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.
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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.
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The paperback seen in good company on the new & notable table @ Books Are Magic, BK.
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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!
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I interviewed the brilliant artist Uman for T Mag: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/t...
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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Glorious empty day at Rockaway Beach
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