Lawrence Weschler

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lawrence Weschler
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Feb 13, 1952(1952-02-13)
Age	72
Birthplace	Van Nuys
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Aquarius

Lawrence Weschler Biography

Lawrence Weschler is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on February 13, 1952 in Van Nuys, California, United States. Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is the author of several works of nonfiction that are creative and original.

He was recently promoted as director emeritus at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU in New York, where he’s been an associate since 1991 and was director from 2001 to 2013 From which point he was attempting to launch his own semi-annual journal of visual and written culture, Omnivore. The artistic director is also emeritus active in the Chicago Humanities Festival, and curator of New York Live Ideas, an annual humanities body-based partnership in collaboration with Bill T. Jones and his NY Live Arts. He is a contributor editor McSweeney’s The Threepenny Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review; curator at large for the quarterly DVD Wholphin; (recently retired) chair of the Sundance (formerly Soros) Documentary Film Fund as well as Director of the Ernst Toch Society, dedicated to the dissemination of the music composed by his grandfather, the renowned Weimar composer from the emigration of Germany. The composer recently created “Pillow of Air,” which is a monthly “Amble through the worlds of the visual” column in The Believer.

His works of political reporting comprise The Passion of Poland (1984); A Miracle, A Universe Setting accounts with Torturers (1990) as well as Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas (1998).

Lawrence Weschler Net Worth

Lawrence Weschler is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lawrence Weschler 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for more than a quarter of a century (1981-2002) an employee journalist in The New Yorker, where his work spanned comedy and dramas about the culture. He has twice been a award winner for the George Polk Awards – for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and magazine Reporting in 1992. He also was winner of the Lannan Literary Award (1998).

The author’s “Passions and Wonders” series currently includes Seeing Is forgetting the name of the thing one sees The Portrait of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin (1982) David Hockney’s Cameraworks (1984) and The Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder (1995) and A Wanderer in the Perfect City Selections of Passion Pieces (1998); Boggs The Comedy of Values (1999); Robert Irwin: Getty Garden (2002); Vermeer in Bosnia (2004); Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences (February 2006) and Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative (2011). Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder was shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Everything that Rises received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

Recent books include a considerably expanded edition of Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, comprising thirty years of conversations with Robert Irwin; a companion volume, True to Life: Twenty Five Years of Conversation with David Hockney; Liza Lou (a monograph out of Rizzoli); Tara Donovan, the catalog for the artist’s recent exhibition at Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art, and Deborah Butterfield, the catalog for a survey of the artist’s work at the LA Louver Gallery.

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