“Lady Liberty stood me up!” the artist Isabelle Brourman announced, faux-pouting, on a recent Thursday evening at the Will Shott Gallery on New York’s Lower East Side. It was the opening of Exhibit 1: Paper Trail, a collection of work Brourman had created alongside courtroom sketch artists during Donald Trump’s various New York court battles last year. Brourman, who has a knack for intuiting the power of theatrics in and out of the courtroom, had spent the previous day hunting down Times Square’s Lady Liberty character and — having located her atop her silver stilts at the corner of 46th Street and Broadway — had hired her to come to the show. Then, at the last moment, Lady Liberty had bailed via text, a metaphor for our times if there ever were one. “It’s the most bullshit thing ever,” Brourman said of Liberty’s absence. She laughed and waved her long…
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