Lauren
O’Neill-Butler is
a New York-based writer and editor. Her books include The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest in America (Verso, 2025) and Let’s Have a Talk: Conversations
with Women on Art and Culture (Karma, 2021). The editor of Vide, a selective guide to art in New York, she has also written for Art Journal, Bookforum, and The New York Times, among many others, and has contributed essays to various exhibition catalogues. She received a Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant in 2020 and the Beverley Art Writers Travel Grant in 2023.
She holds graduate degrees in art history and philosophy, and has been a visiting critic at Cooper Union, Harvard, Rutgers, Yale, and the University of Chicago. She is currently a part-time faculty member at Hunter College and the New School and is a member of ACT-UAW Local 790 and PSC-CUNY. She was previously a cofounder of the nonprofit magazine November and Senior Editor of Artforum.
She’s on Bluesky here. Please feel free to be in touch with any questions.
She holds graduate degrees in art history and philosophy, and has been a visiting critic at Cooper Union, Harvard, Rutgers, Yale, and the University of Chicago. She is currently a part-time faculty member at Hunter College and the New School and is a member of ACT-UAW Local 790 and PSC-CUNY. She was previously a cofounder of the nonprofit magazine November and Senior Editor of Artforum.
She’s on Bluesky here. Please feel free to be in touch with any questions.