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A Documentary Lets David Wojnarowicz Speak Again

by Dan Schindel March 18, 2021March 18, 2021

Wojnarowicz features selections from hundreds of hours of personal recordings the artist left behind after his 1992 death.

Posted inArt

A David Wojnarowicz Documentary Honors the Gritty, Glorious Chaos of His Life

by Eileen G'Sell November 14, 2020September 15, 2021

In Wojnarowicz’s work, as in his life, testing the limits of artistic categories and systemic and institutional power was central to his impassioned vision.

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David Wojnarowicz’s Little-known “Stoned” Drawings

by Valentina Di Liscia August 7, 2020November 5, 2020

Wojnarowicz created his “Stoned Sketchbook” as a teenager, but its loopy, delightful drawings foreshadow the mature artist’s irresistible irreverence.

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Wolfgang Tillmans Gets Artists to Sell $50 Posters for Global Fundraiser

by Hakim Bishara April 23, 2020April 28, 2020

The 2020Solidarity fundraiser features posters by Tillmans and other acclaimed artists like Nicole Eisenman, Betty Tompkins, and David Wojnarowicz.

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Revisiting the Provocative AIDS Art of Robert Blanchon

by Jeremy Lybarger December 1, 2018December 3, 2018

The artist’s aim was to “elevate the physiological aspects of HIV to a level of reality that represents the pain, loss, and massive suffering caused by this plague.”

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A David Wojnarowicz Performance from 1989 Is Released on Vinyl

by Matt Stromberg October 24, 2018October 23, 2018

“ITSOFOMO: In The Shadow of Forward Motion” features Wojnarowicz’s haunting spoken-word vocals and composer Ben Neill’s ambient soundscapes.

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The Inner Life of David Wojnarowicz Through His Words

by Michael Valinsky October 20, 2018October 28, 2018

A new transcription of the artist’s recorded journals offers readers a unique perspective on his inner life and the daily realities of individuals living with the threat of AIDS.

Posted inArt

Compressing Time With David Wojnarowicz

by Alexis Clements September 26, 2018September 26, 2018

“Time is now compressed and every painting I do… I make with the sense that it may be the last thing I do,” Wojnarowicz wrote after his AIDS diagnosis in 1987.

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Who Was Artist David Wojnarowicz? We Find Out

by Hrag Vartanian August 24, 2018April 19, 2022

After two actions led by ACT UP activists encouraged the Whitney Museum to change a wall label, we went looking for people who could tell us who Wojnarowicz was and help us decipher his complex life and art.

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David Wojnarowicz’s Native American Inspiration and the “Killing Machine Called America”

by Lou Cornum August 23, 2018August 23, 2018

Though Wojnarowicz, like most Americans, viewed Indians through a romanticized lens, his interest in the shared death space of those marked as expendable reveals the possibility for collaboration beyond life.

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Looking at Queer Constellations of Intimacy

by Zachary Small August 20, 2018August 20, 2018

Intimacy at Yossi Milo Gallery unites a diverse assembly of artists tracing the outline of affection from the 1980s to present day.

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ACT UP Returns to the Whitney Museum’s Wojnarowicz Retrospective, This Time as Guests

by Jasmine Weber August 8, 2018August 8, 2018

HIV/AIDS activists return to the New York museum, while the museum updated their wall placards to reflect the continuing crisis and the recent action.

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