Between Fountainheads
Episode Summary
New Yorker veteran Weschler discusses what it has been like, the past several decades, to be serving as Boswell simultaneously to two seemingly diametrically opposite giants of the contemporary art scene, Robert Irwin and David Hockney.
Participant(s) Bio
A staff writer at the New Yorker for over twenty years, Lawrence Weschler is currently the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities and concurrently artistic director of the Chicago Humanities Festival. His last book, Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences, was awarded the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. His newest publications include Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin, along with True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney
Credits
ALOUD audio is presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and made possible through support provided by The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Righteous Persons Foundation, City National Bank, K&L Gates, KPMG, Sue and David Rosenblum, Wallis Foundation, Donna and Martin J. Wolff and The Boudjakdji Foundation. Additional support provided by The Council of the Library Foundation, Library Foundation members, and the Los Angeles Public Library. Media support provided by KPPC 83.9 FM and KUSC 91.5 FM. ALOUD theme composed by Larry Karush.