Exhibition Talk with Arne Glimcher and Lawrence Weschler

A conversation with Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher and art historian Lawrence Weschler. They will discuss the life and impact of Robert Irwin reflected in conversations with the artist found in Weschler’s publication Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. Their conversation will be moderated by Oliver Shultz, Pace Gallery Chief Curator and Director at 125 Newbury.

This event is free and open to the public though advance registration is encouraged. Please note priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, though advance registration does not guarantee admission once the event reaches capacity.

Robert Irwin is made possible with support from Pace Gallery.

Arne Glimcher is the founder of Pace Gallery, which he opened in Boston in 1960 in a small, street-level shop on historic Newbury Street. In 1963, the gallery opened its first space in New York City on 57th Street. Today, Glimcher serves as Chairman of Pace Gallery and helms 125 Newbury, a project space he opened in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood in 2022. Over the decades, Glimcher has played a critical role in shaping the careers and legacies of many significant artists, including Jean Dubuffet, Robert Irwin, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko, and Lucas Samaras, and advancing the careers of Sam Gilliam, David Hockney, Maya Lin, and James Turrell. He is also often credited with introducing museum-quality exhibitions into galleries and establishing Pace as one of the leading producers of scholarly catalogues and art books.

Lawrence Weschler graduated from Cowell College of University of California, Santa Cruz in 1974 and met Robert Irwin a few years later while working in the University of California, Los Angeles Oral History Program. Their conversations presently yielded the manuscript that would become Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, which was bought by the New Yorker in 1981 and published by the University of California Press in 1982, with an expanded second edition published in 2006. Weschler was a staff writer at the New Yorker from 1981 to 2001, and then director (now emeritus) of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University through 2014. He is the author of over twenty books, including True to Life (1982, 2006), a contrapuntal collection of conversations with David Hockney; Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (1995) on Los Angeles' Museum of Jurassic Technology; Vermeer in Bosnia (2004); Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (2006), and And How are You, Doctor Sacks (2019) a biographical memoir of his 35-year friendship with the late neurologist Oliver Sacks. A third edition of Seeing is Forgetting is forthcoming. Meanwhile, most of his efforts these days are devoted to Wondercabinet, his Substack fortnightly on the Miscellaneous Diverse.