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PETER HUJAR — CRUISING UTOPIA

In conjunction with their online Peter Hujar exhibition CRUISING UTOPIA, Pace will convene a virtual panel discussion moderated by  Oliver Shultz.

Panelists include Nayland Blake,  Every Ocean Hughes (Emily Roysdon), Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and Stephen Koch, a close friend of Hujar’s and the director of his archive.

See link below for details.

CRUISING UTOPIA—A CONVERSATION ON PETER HUJAR

Wednesday, July 15.

10 am on the West Coast; 1 pm East Coast.

Peter Hujar, Cruising Utopia, Pace, June 30, 2020–July 28, 2020, from top: Christopher Street Pier #5, 1976, vintage gelatin silver print; John Giorno, Jim Carroll, Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and Jayne Cortez, circa 1982, vintage gelatin silver print; Fran Lebowitz [at Home in Morristown], 1974, vintage gelatin silver print; Richie, 1985, vintage gelatin silver print; John Heys in Lana Turner’s Gown (III), 1979, vintage gelatin silver print; Paul Thek Masturbating, 1967, pigmented ink print; Two Cockettes, 1971, vintage gelatin silver print; Greer Lankton in a Fashion Pose (I), 1983, vintage gelatin silver print; Christopher Street Pier #2 (Crossed Legs), 1976, pigmented ink print; Christopher Street Pier #4, 1976, vintage gelatin silver print; Hudson River (III), 1976, pigmented ink print. Images courtesy and © The Peter Hujar Archive and Pace Gallery.

WEIGHT OF THE EARTH

WEIGHT OF THE EARTH—THE TAPE JOURNALS OF DAVID WOJNAROWICZ is a collection of “audio journals that document Wojnarowicz’s turbulent attempts to understand his anxieties and passions, tracking his thoughts as they develop in real time.”*

Artforum editor David Velasco has written an introduction for book, out now from Semiotext(e).

WEIGHT OF THE EARTH—THE TAPE JOURNALS OF DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, edited by Lisa Darms and David O’Neill (South Pasadena, CA: Semiotext(e), 2018).*

Top: Andreas SterzingDavid Wojnarowicz and Peter Hujar at an opening at Civilian Warfare Gallery in the East Village, 1983.

Above: David Wojnarowicz, Jean Genet Masturbating in Metteray Prison, 1983.

Below: Wojnarowicz.

JOHN WATERS IN CONVERSATION

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John Waters, whose newest book is Make Trouble, is in town this weekend for a public conversation.

 

JOHN WATERS, Saturday, June 2, at 8 pm.

LUCKMAN FINE ARTS COMPLEX, Cal State L.A., 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles.

luckmanarts.org/john-waters

Above: Terry Richardson, John Waters and Johnny Knoxville.

Below: Peter Hujar, John Waters (I), 1975.

© Peter Hujar Archive, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

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VINCE ALETTI ON PETER HUJAR

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Vince Aletti—collector, photography critic, and Peter Hujar’s East Village neighbor and friend—will join David Wojnarowicz biographer Cynthia Carr, author Jonathan D. Katz, and Hujar model and printing lab co-founder Gary Schneider for a conversation about Hujar, in conjunction with the Morgan exhibition of the photographer’s work.

 

PETER HUJARLIFE AND TIMES, Saturday, April 7, at 2 pm.

themorgan.org/peter-hujar-life-and-times

PETER HUJAR—SPEED OF LIFE, through May 20.

MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, New York City.

themorgan.org/peter-hujar

See: anothermag.com/vince-aletti-on-peter-hujar

And: lens.blogs.nytimes.com/peter-hujar-gay-lower-east-side

Above: Peter HujarDiana Vreeland (II), 1975. © Estate of Peter Hujar, courtesy of Maureen Paley, London, and Pace/MacGill GalleryNew York

Below: Peter HujarDavid Wojnarowicz, 1981. © Estate of Peter Hujar, courtesy of Maureen Paley, London, and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.

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PETER HUJAR

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The Morgan Library and Museum presents a new exhibition of 140 works by Peter Hujar, the great photographer of Lower Manhattan.

The PETER HUJAR—SPEED OF LIFE catalogue includes the first fully researched chronology, exhibition history, and bibliography to be published on Hujar.

PETER HUJAR—SPEED OF LIFE, through May 20.

MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, New York City.

themorgan.org/peter-hujar

See Holland Cotternytimes.com/peter-hujar-morgan-library-and-museum

See Sarah Nicole Prickett and Nan GoldinGary Indiana, Dev Hynes, Vince Aletti, etc. on Hujar:

documentjournal.com/the-eternal-peter-hujar

Peter Hujar.

Above: Self-Potrait Jumping (1), 1974.

Below: Daniel Schock, 1981.

Both images: © Peter Hujar Archive, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

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