Lisa Cooley
@lisacooleynyc.bsky.social
Art advisor, music lover
Oko, a podcast for collectors and other art lovers
Oko, a podcast for collectors and other art lovers
Can't wait to see this exhibition
New from me:
On Kara Walker's radical transformation of a toppled Confederate memorial — the Stonewall Jackson statue from Charlottesville, Va.
Her piece goes on view next month, part of the big MONUMENTS show at The Brick and MOCA in Los Angeles.
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
On Kara Walker's radical transformation of a toppled Confederate memorial — the Stonewall Jackson statue from Charlottesville, Va.
Her piece goes on view next month, part of the big MONUMENTS show at The Brick and MOCA in Los Angeles.
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Can't wait to see this exhibition
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David Hare, Crab, 1951 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136258
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136258
July 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
David Hare, Crab, 1951 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136258
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136258
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Congrats to Zohran Mamdani. Important lessons.
Focus on shifting economic power. Relentlessly. Have big ideas on how to do it.
Be joyful and authentic. Even if your ideas aren't considered "mainstream" by elites. The elites have little idea what's actually mainstream.
Focus on shifting economic power. Relentlessly. Have big ideas on how to do it.
Be joyful and authentic. Even if your ideas aren't considered "mainstream" by elites. The elites have little idea what's actually mainstream.
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
June 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Congrats to Zohran Mamdani. Important lessons.
Focus on shifting economic power. Relentlessly. Have big ideas on how to do it.
Be joyful and authentic. Even if your ideas aren't considered "mainstream" by elites. The elites have little idea what's actually mainstream.
Focus on shifting economic power. Relentlessly. Have big ideas on how to do it.
Be joyful and authentic. Even if your ideas aren't considered "mainstream" by elites. The elites have little idea what's actually mainstream.
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Brad Lander IS having a great day
(Also: don’t I always look like an off-duty rock star? ;-)
www.thecut.com/article/brad...
(Also: don’t I always look like an off-duty rock star? ;-)
www.thecut.com/article/brad...
Brad Lander Is Having a Great Day
Ain’t no party like a Zohran Mamdani victory party (attended by New York City comptroller Brad Lander).
www.thecut.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Brad Lander IS having a great day
(Also: don’t I always look like an off-duty rock star? ;-)
www.thecut.com/article/brad...
(Also: don’t I always look like an off-duty rock star? ;-)
www.thecut.com/article/brad...
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Nicolas de Largillière, Study of Hands, 1715, 65 cm x 83.5 cm (Musée du Louvre)
June 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Nicolas de Largillière, Study of Hands, 1715, 65 cm x 83.5 cm (Musée du Louvre)
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Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from les Lauves, 1906 #artbots #cezanne
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/13515
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/13515
May 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from les Lauves, 1906 #artbots #cezanne
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/13515
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/13515
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Robert Rauschenberg, Stop Side Early Winter Glut, 1987 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137543
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137543
May 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Robert Rauschenberg, Stop Side Early Winter Glut, 1987 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137543
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137543
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Pretty much the same amount Republicans promise to “save” in this budget is what the IRS could have collected from tax cheats and wealthy/sophisticated filers WITHOUT RAISING A SINGLE TAX.
But instead somebody somewhere will lose out on healthcare. Stupid and cruel.
But instead somebody somewhere will lose out on healthcare. Stupid and cruel.
April 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Pretty much the same amount Republicans promise to “save” in this budget is what the IRS could have collected from tax cheats and wealthy/sophisticated filers WITHOUT RAISING A SINGLE TAX.
But instead somebody somewhere will lose out on healthcare. Stupid and cruel.
But instead somebody somewhere will lose out on healthcare. Stupid and cruel.
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RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
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For Ithell Colquhoun, the world was alive. Energies, mythical forces, and solar alignments imbued landscapes with powers that wove together human beings, ecologies, and the cosmos. Her papers have recently been reunited, resulting in the largest-ever exhibition of her strange, experimental work.
The Living Divinations of Ithell Colquhoun
The artist’s dreamy paintings and drawings transcend any specific culture, instead drawing on a perennial understanding of the sacred.
hyperallergic.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
For Ithell Colquhoun, the world was alive. Energies, mythical forces, and solar alignments imbued landscapes with powers that wove together human beings, ecologies, and the cosmos. Her papers have recently been reunited, resulting in the largest-ever exhibition of her strange, experimental work.
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One of the early outrages in the Red Scare was Truman’s EO asserting that “sympathetic association” with communist groups was grounds for being fired from a federal job.
That was bad enough, but now they’re saying alien residents can be deported for what they claim are their “expected beliefs”
That was bad enough, but now they’re saying alien residents can be deported for what they claim are their “expected beliefs”
Imagine trying to deport someone for their "expected beliefs"
April 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
One of the early outrages in the Red Scare was Truman’s EO asserting that “sympathetic association” with communist groups was grounds for being fired from a federal job.
That was bad enough, but now they’re saying alien residents can be deported for what they claim are their “expected beliefs”
That was bad enough, but now they’re saying alien residents can be deported for what they claim are their “expected beliefs”
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She is on a winning streak
If AOC is too busy, Helly should primary Chuck Schumer
March 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
She is on a winning streak
Strong agree
Do not fuck with librarians; they know everything, and incredibly organized, and will come for your ass (I can't wait)
The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide.
This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.
This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.
April 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Strong agree
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The window #artbots #magritte
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18542
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18542
March 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The window #artbots #magritte
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18542
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18542
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Andrew Cuomo literally architected GOP control of the state legislature. He is the definition of a DINO.
Do not rank Andrew Cuomo on your ballot.
Do not rank Andrew Cuomo on your ballot.
Eric Adams got his corruption charges dropped. All it took was selling out New Yorkers to Donald Trump.
We’re all tired of this spineless, failed mayor, but remember: Andrew Cuomo is running for Adams' 2nd term.
Same donors. Same chaos. Just a new Trump ally in Gracie Mansion.
We’re all tired of this spineless, failed mayor, but remember: Andrew Cuomo is running for Adams' 2nd term.
Same donors. Same chaos. Just a new Trump ally in Gracie Mansion.
April 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Andrew Cuomo literally architected GOP control of the state legislature. He is the definition of a DINO.
Do not rank Andrew Cuomo on your ballot.
Do not rank Andrew Cuomo on your ballot.
Yes!
I responded to some questions posed by the editors of Mutt, a new publication. We desperately need new venues and voices for art writing right now, and we’ll need more people to support them, too.
March 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Yes!
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This is one of the closest Nazi parallels the Trump White House has yet announced. I know because I actually saw a recreation of the original 1937 Nazi “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art) exhibit at the Smithsonian in 1991. They assembled 200 of the original 650 works. It was a sight to behold.
March 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This is one of the closest Nazi parallels the Trump White House has yet announced. I know because I actually saw a recreation of the original 1937 Nazi “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art) exhibit at the Smithsonian in 1991. They assembled 200 of the original 650 works. It was a sight to behold.
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A US citizen, federal employee and former infantryman said he had his Global Entry revoked a day after posting a video about growing up in China, his dad being imprisoned during the Tiananmen Square protests and his concerns about the current situation in the US: www.instagram.com/reel/DHwEjGa...
March 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A US citizen, federal employee and former infantryman said he had his Global Entry revoked a day after posting a video about growing up in China, his dad being imprisoned during the Tiananmen Square protests and his concerns about the current situation in the US: www.instagram.com/reel/DHwEjGa...
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Hello! Anyone looking for the most sober, referenced exploration of how RACE IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT (and how racism and science share a history) should check out this excellent @nature.com guest-edited editorial from 2022: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
March 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Hello! Anyone looking for the most sober, referenced exploration of how RACE IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT (and how racism and science share a history) should check out this excellent @nature.com guest-edited editorial from 2022: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Let this be a lesson to everyone: Trump won't relent if you give in; he's a bully. The only thing that will get him to back off is to punch him back.
Trump drops the demeaning "governor" stuff and calls Carney by his correct title
March 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Let this be a lesson to everyone: Trump won't relent if you give in; he's a bully. The only thing that will get him to back off is to punch him back.
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The same Missouri state senator who got heat over a bill a few weeks ago that would create a registry of pregnant women is back with a new bill that would create....another registry of "expectant mothers identified as being at risk for seeking abortion"
Missouri's Registry for Pregnant Women is Back
3.26.25
jessica.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The same Missouri state senator who got heat over a bill a few weeks ago that would create a registry of pregnant women is back with a new bill that would create....another registry of "expectant mothers identified as being at risk for seeking abortion"
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It seems ICE had a quota for Venezuelan gang members & filled it by picking up people with tattoos. Rose, hummingbird, soccer, mother, Autism awareness. For that people are taken from their families & sent to spend the rest of their lives in horrifying conditions.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
www.motherjones.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It seems ICE had a quota for Venezuelan gang members & filled it by picking up people with tattoos. Rose, hummingbird, soccer, mother, Autism awareness. For that people are taken from their families & sent to spend the rest of their lives in horrifying conditions.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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servicey, works for now: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google’s AI Overview.
arstechnica.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
servicey, works for now: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...
Let’s not forget this!!!!
I haven't looked at the crosstabs of these polls for any insight, but Cuomo spent his first two terms empowering Republicans in the Senate so he could dominate all lawmaking in the state, holding back movement. He's back-tracked on every good policy win. He was awful during COVID.
March 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Let’s not forget this!!!!