Robert Wilson Plans a “Library of Inspiration”

ARTNEW NEWS
By Alexandra Peers

Matthew Prest, Whelping Box, 2013. Courtesy The Watermill Center.

NEW YORK---Wilson is busily preparing for his $15,000-per-table annual bacchanal/gala when we speak, due to be held Saturday, July 26th. The invitation says “dress code: bazaar chic” but Wilson’s tip for guests is more specific. “Dress sexy and exotic.” Robert Wilson, when we speak by phone from the Hamptons (at his end, not mine), is hurried, gracious, and bubbling with news. He’s just gotten back from a meeting with prominent architect Roger Ferris and they’ve decided to go ahead with an expansion of his beloved Watermill Center performance-art lab. A new large, library that should be completed in about three years, Wilson brags, will be completely underground—and will be “what no one else is doing.” [link]