Artists on Artists

For our Artists on Artists series, Robert Longo steps inside our exhibition of Robert Irwin’s work in Los Angeles. Here, Longo reflects on his first meeting with Irwin in the 1970s in Buffalo, New York—an encounter that has stayed with him since then. “He was helping artists to understand art—it was quite miraculous what he was doing,” Longo says of Irwin. In addition to new commentary from Longo, this film features archival footage of Irwin from 1975 speaking about the role artists can play in reshaping our understanding of the world. Our exhibition Robert Irwin in Los Angeles, the artist’s first posthumous presentation in California, continues through June 7, 2025.