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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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
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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