The Library: Audio/Visual

Lectures & Podcasts

A Conversation about Robert Irwin’s Getty Garden with Jim Cuno

The Getty Foundation

Conversation with Federico Solmi

Luis de Jesus Gallery, LA

Humanity vs (or within) Nature: Ren with artists Opdyke, Redniss, Chalmers and Prosek

MANA Contemporary

Discussing Ethiopia and artist Elias Sime with Maaza Mengiste

Ren with Walter Murch on Waves Passing in the Night

The Hammer Museum

The Fraught Crossroads

where race and class keep intersecting across American History, and who gets to address them

Ren anchors a celebration of David Hockney at 80

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Art and Science as Parallel and Divergent Ways of Knowing

University of Wyoming

Lead Into Gold: Wresting something from nothing from alchemy through finance

Blackboard talk

A Conversation with Laura Kipnis

NeueHouse

A Conversation about Walter Hopps

NeueHouse

A Conversation with Ramiro Gomez

NeueHouse

Exiles in Paradise:  Hitler’s Cultural Refugees in LA in the thirties and forties

Gagosian Gallery, February 2018

Planetary Systems Reconceived in “Musical” Terms

Walter Murch

Kienholz’s “Five Car Stud”

at the Fraught Crossroads where Class, Race, Sex & Violence keep intersecting in America

Radio

On the passing of Oliver Sacks

"Q", CBC Radio

A Season with the Borrowers, with Sara Weschler

"This American Life" (Father's Day 1998)

Sound Portraits: Museum of Jurassic Technology

Premiered December 6, 1996, on All Things Considered

KUSC on Ernst Toch

The Exile of Breyten Breytenbach

“Territory of Art,” 1986

Film

Ren with Walter Murch on Waves Passing in the Night

The Hammer Museum

A Jewish Joke Slapdown with Simon Schama

Chicago Humanities Festival

Ren in conversation with Rob Storr on Louise Bourgeois and Alberto Savinio

Center for Modern Italian Art, Oct 24, 2017

Discussing Sacks in Seattle

Elliott Bay Book Store

Form and Freedom in Narrative Nonfiction - Lecture Four

Form and Freedom in Narrative Nonfiction - Lecture Three

Form and Freedom in Narrative Nonfiction - Lecture Two

Form and Freedom in Nonfiction Narrative - Lecture One