Lawrence Weschler

A Commonplace Book

The whole “sting and excitement” of life comes from “our sense that things are really being decided from one moment to another, and that it is not the dull rattling off of a chain that was forged innumerable ages ago.”

William James
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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

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
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