A vibrant account of the stratospheric rise and inner lives Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, the forgotten artist duo that shaped New York cool
Andy Warhol sent Paul a Brillo box. Fran Lebowitz called Peter…
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‘They accomplished so much, even as they were dying’: the groundbreaking gay art of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek ⊕⊕
A new book uncovers the yearning romance that fueled the Aids-era artists’ life and work
Andrew Durbin, author and editor-in-chief of Frieze Magazine, spent almost five years writing The Wonderful Wor…
Made in Fire Island: how artists were at the heart of the LGBTQ+ mecca ⊕
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A new book shows that the work of Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Hujar – as well as a new generation of artists – would not be the same without the New York island
In the summer of 2015, Leilah Babirye…
5 months ago
Reality winners: the rise and rise of the ‘verbatim’ movie ⊕⊕
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From Kaouther Ben Hania’s reconstruction of the killing of a five-year-old Gazan girl in The Voice of Hind Rajab to Ira Sachs use of a taped interview in Peter Hujar’s Day, real-life dialogue is bein…
7 months ago
‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar ⊕⊕
Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpiece
On 19 De…
14 months ago
‘I invited a dozen ex-boyfriends to dinner and taped it’: the amazing avant garde recordings of Linda Rosenkrantz ○
As her tape-recorder adventures are brought to the screen by Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw, the 90-year-old remembers how she got the NY art crowd – from Peter Hujar to Chuck Close – talking about dru…
17 months ago
Condoms, cows and contortions: Peter Hujar’s astonishing vision – in pictures ○
The photographer was a key figure on New York’s downtown scene – but, as a new exhibition shows, his later works dealt with the great losses of the Aids crisis
Continue reading...‘Between austerity and empathy’: UK show celebrates late New York photographer Peter Hujar ○
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Hujar warmly captured gay life in downtown New York in the 1970s but was little known in his lifetime
The curators of an exhibition of one of New York’s most important photographers, who captured gay …
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