A Commonplace Book

When an Indian child has been brought up among us, taught our language and habituated to our Customs, yet if he goes to see his relations and make an Indian Ramble with them, there is no perswading him ever to return. [But] when white persons of either sex have been taken prisoners young by ...

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YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS: Portraits of Lawrence Weschler

YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS: Portraits of Lawrence Weschler

Recent Pieces

Tristan Duke Part 1: The Magus in His Youth

Fabrik

An Epic Wall Piece That Confronts Climate Change

The New York Times

Salka Viertel and the Exiles in Paradise

The Kindness of Strangers

Remembering Ricky Jay

McSweeney's

Hockney at Pace

Catalog essay

A Convergence of Jews, Poles, & Pigs

The Believer

Convergences & Pillows

Impresario

And How Are You, Dr Sacks?

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