Lawrence Weschler

A Commonplace Book

The purpose of education is to teach each of us to defend ourselves against the seductions of eloquence.

Bertrand Russell (in Harper’s, March 1991, p. 47)
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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
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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