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

Frozen Time: Bill Morrison takes on the Dawson City Film Archive

Vanity Fair

The Whitney in Black and White

Project Syndicate

At Long Last - Robert Irwin in Marfa

Modern Painters

On Fictions of the Pose in Alice Neel and Harry Berger

The Believer

Dogged by Trees

Artenol

Domestic Disturbances: The Art of Ramiro Gomez

The New York Times
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Convergences & Pillows

Impresario
Waves Passing in the Night

Books

Audio/Visual

Planetary Systems Reconceived in “Musical” Terms

Walter Murch

Ren with Walter Murch on Waves Passing in the Night

The Hammer Museum

Lead Into Gold: Wresting something from nothing from alchemy through finance

Blackboard talk

Kienholz’s “Five Car Stud”

at the Fraught Crossroads where Class, Race, Sex & Violence keep intersecting in America