Lawrence Weschler
Lawrence Weschler is director of the New York Institute for the Humanities and artistic director of the Chicago Humanities Festival. Recent books include Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences (winner of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism), and a set of paired biographies of Robert Irwin (the revised edition of Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees) and David Hockney (True to Life). The final chapters of the latter two appeared in earlier issues of VQR.
Published in VQR
- The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, Summer 2011
- Double Vision: The Art of Trevor and Ryan Oakes, Spring 2009
- David Hockney: A Return to Painting, Fall 2008
- Embeddedness: Robert Irwin in His Seventies, Spring 2008
- The Emperor’s Deathbed: An Exchange, Winter 2008
- Miniature Monuments: The Sculptures of David Opdyke, Winter 2007
- A Berlin Epiphany, Fall 2006
- A Final Thought on Intelligent Design—and a Modest Proposal, Spring 2006
- The Graphics of Solidarity, Winter 2006
- Unfinished: On Vincent Desiderio’s Sleep, Fall 2005


