Opened the world of Robert Irwin's art for me

Review of Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler

The abstract art section has always been the one that I skip through whenever I visit modern art museums. Though I knew there was a lot of thinking that went into the blobs of color, the light, and the sheer nakedness of some of the spaces, they did nothing for me. I preferred the pre-World War II art movements in Europe, where I thought that everything…