Lauren O’Neill-Butler is a New York-based writer and editor. Her books include Let’s Have a Talk: Conversations with Women on Art and Culture (Karma, 2021) and The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest in America (Verso, 2025), which was named one of the best books of 2025 by NPR, Observer, and Colossal, and one of the most influential books on United States history by the Brooklyn Public Library. She received a Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant in 2020 and the Beverley Art Writers Travel Grant in 2023.
The editor of Vide, a selective guide to art in New York, she was previously a cofounder of the nonprofit magazine November and Senior Editor of Artforum. 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 holds graduate degrees in art history and philosophy and has been a visiting critic at schools including Cooper Union, Harvard, Rutgers, Yale, and the University of Chicago. She is part-time faculty at Hunter College, CUNY, and the New School and is a union member of ACT-UAW Local 790 and PSC-CUNY.
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The editor of Vide, a selective guide to art in New York, she was previously a cofounder of the nonprofit magazine November and Senior Editor of Artforum. 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 holds graduate degrees in art history and philosophy and has been a visiting critic at schools including Cooper Union, Harvard, Rutgers, Yale, and the University of Chicago. She is part-time faculty at Hunter College, CUNY, and the New School and is a union member of ACT-UAW Local 790 and PSC-CUNY.
She’s on Bluesky here. Please feel free to be in touch with any questions.