Lawrence Weschler

A Commonplace Book

Kim Chernin’s mother Rose, describing life in the Bronx Cooperative Housing Projects in the 1930s:

There was a wonderful mood in that cooperative. Something you just wouldn’t see anymore in the world. There, it was common for the children to be named Leon Trotsky Blume or Vladimir Lenin ...
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About
YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS: Portraits of Lawrence Weschler

YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS: Portraits of Lawrence Weschler

Recent Pieces

Natalie Frank does O

A catalog conversation

Hidden Noses Across Art History

The Paris Review

The End is Here! Melamid’s Asshole

The Paris Review

Cutting Corners: David Hockney at Pace

Catalog essay

In conversation with Jorge Tacla

Catalog to Tacla show in Santiago - 2017

Eclipse Wedding Rabbi

McSweeney's 51 - December 2017
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Convergences & Pillows

Impresario
Waves Passing in the Night

Books

Audio/Visual

Exiles in Paradise:  Hitler’s Cultural Refugees in LA in the thirties and forties

Gagosian Gallery, February 2018

Ren with Walter Murch on Waves Passing in the Night

The Hammer Museum

A Conversation with Laura Kipnis

NeueHouse

The Fraught Crossroads

where race and class keep intersecting across American History, and who gets to address them