Harn Eminent Scholar Lecture Series

Art and Science as Parallel and Divergent Ways of Knowing

Lawrence Weschler

Director Emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU,

“New Yorker” Writer and Author

Nowadays, artists and scientists tend to think of their ways of probing the world as distinctly different.  But such was not always the case (in fact the divide is only a few centuries old; think of Leonardo, think of the wonder cabinets of the seventeenth century).  Nor may the differences be all that distinct or even real. In a lecture originally developed for a conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation, longtime New Yorker writer Lawrence Weschler--director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU (where the sciences were emphatically included as part of and central to the humanities) and author, among others, of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder and Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences--will extrapolate on such themes, with side-meanders into the thinking of artists Robert Irwin and David Hockney  (subjects of his two most recent books) and a whole new interpretation of Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson.

Room #

Chandler Auditorium

Address

3259 Hull Road

Phone

352-392-9826

Website

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art Website