Lawrence Weschler, the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University for the past dozen years, is a frequent contributor to our pages. His recent books include Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences and Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative. See more at lawrenceweschler.com

• October 2012: Interview with The Art Guys
  Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing on why their lives’ work can be accurately characterized as “one damn thing after another”
• June 2011: Interview with Lena Herzog
• February 2011: Interview with Margaret and Christine Wertheim
  Two sisters—a painter and a physicist—are spearheading a global project at the intersection of mathematics, science, ecology, feminism, and art.
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  November/December 2010: Conversation with Michael Light
  “I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West—recur- rent themes in my overall work—I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.”
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  November/December 2010: Interview with Fictions of the Pose
  A Letter from Harry Berger Jr. on Alice Neel’s Portraits
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  November/December 2008: The Paralyzed Cyclops
  A decades-long argument between David Hockney and Robert Irwin, artists who’ve never met, and whose core concerns are nearly identical.
• March 2007: On the Art of the Disappeared
  After legal accountability reached the old regimes of Latin America, artists began addressing the cultural damage. Some notes on their success.
• December 2004/January 2005: Interview with Ed Kienholz
  At the end of a five-day, ten-session summit in 1976, Kienholz finally yielded the infamous “TWA story”—but at what price?
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  October 2003: Far Out
  A distinguished futurist and an idiosyncratic philosopher-writer debate the intelligence of machines and the future of wonder.