# @rubinmuseum on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DM8dnmhPFn4
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32959691-rubinmuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-04T19:24:40.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (@rubinmuseum) — https://gondola.cc/rubinmuseum

## Caption

We mourn the loss of #RobertWilson (1941–2025), a visionary director who forever altered the language of theater and opera.
 
In 2010 Wilson joined architect Charles Renfro in the Rubin’s theater for a lively discussion where he revealed what it was like to grow up as a gay person in 1950s Waco, Texas—and delivered the kind of declarations only the creator of "Einstein on the Beach" could:

🌀“Burn the schools of theater decoration! We don’t need them. Theater should be architectural.”
💡 “Without light there is no space.”
⏳ “Sometimes when we are really still, we are more aware of movement than when we move a lot.”
 
Wilson worked with many of the artists who defined the Rubin Museum’s first two decades: Marina Abramović, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Philip Glass, and Lou Reed.

The shape and time of theater are forever changed thanks to Robert Wilson.
 
📸 Courtesy RW Works, photo by Lesley Spinks.

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