A visit to Robert Longo’s SoHo studio comes with a warning: you might get covered in charcoal. It’s a muggy Thursday morning in midsummer and the artist, 72, is dressed in his signature uniform of all black, coffee mug in hand. Longo has just arrived in the city from his home in East Hampton, where he spends much of his time, and he’ll head back out later that afternoon. The artist is in the final stretch of preparation for “The Weight of Hope,” his exhibition that opens Sept. 11. The show will be the largest mounted at Pace’s 25th Street New York flagship, encompassing all of the gallery’s exhibition spaces across several floors. It’s a continuation of Longo’s survey exhibition “The Acceleration of History” at the Milwaukee Art Museum, featuring works from the past decade of his career as well as new ones, and comes on the heels of his show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, which closed at the end of August. Inside Robert Longo’s studio in New York. Lexie Moreland/WWD At first glance all of his drawings, massive in scale, look like photographs. But Longo’s work is less about depicting a concrete moment and more about documenting a poetic

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