Conversation: Robert Irwin and Lawrence Weschler
Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Admission: Free; reservations required. Call (310) 440-7300 or use the "Make Reservation" Link
Artist Robert Irwin, a master of light and space, talks about his work and career with Lawrence Weschler, author of creative nonfiction and contributor to The New Yorker.
The two discuss perception, philosophy, and the destiny of art on the occasion of the release of Weschler's newly expanded edition of Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin, his landmark book on the artist. Praised by The New York Times for having "convinced more young people to become artists than the Velvet Underground has created rockers," Seeing Is Forgetting traces Irwin's career from his early days at Otis through his design of the Central Garden at the Getty Center and the master plan for Dia:Beacon in New York. Irwin and Weschler discuss the unique challenges of creating and maintaining living works of art and consider how the Central Garden has changed over its first decade.
