A Commonplace Book

All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we ...

T.K. Whipple, Study Out the Land, (Epigram from Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove)

About

YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS: Portraits of Lawrence Weschler

YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS: Portraits of Lawrence Weschler

Recent Pieces

On the Coming Illegitimacy of the Supreme Court

TheNation.com, by way of Project Syndicate

A Convergence of Jews, Poles, & Pigs

The Believer

Jessica Anne Schwartz & the art of the spoon

The Paris Review

Natalie Frank does O

A catalog conversation

Cutting Corners: David Hockney at Pace

Catalog essay

In conversation with Jorge Tacla

Catalog to Tacla show in Santiago - 2017

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