David Wojnarowicz

Podcast

Who Was Artist David Wojnarowicz? We Find Out

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”

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

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

News

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

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.

Interview

A New Online Project Rethinks How We Learn About Artists and Archive Their Life and Work

Now working at New York University, Glenn Wharton is responsible for the comprehensive David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base. Joan Jonas is next.

News

Protesters Stage Intervention at Whitney’s Wojnarowicz Exhibition to Highlight the Enduring HIV/AIDS Crisis

A dozen protesters gathered at the Whitney Museum of Art to condemn the institution's lack of modern context about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in relation to Wojnarowicz's artwork.

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A Torch Song for David Wojnarowicz, Who Powerfully Documented the AIDS Crisis

Wojnarowicz embraced an activist's approach to life and art by producing hundreds of artworks in a span of a decade, before succumbing to his own AIDS-related illness in 1992.

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Queer Artists Show that Activism Is Key to Survival

VOICE = SURVIVAL contains some wrong turns and dead ends, but these impediments are few and do not detract from the sublime experience of listening to activists speaks their truth.

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The Tender Gravity of Domestic Spaces Haunted by AIDS

A multimedia exhibit at Museum of the City of New York looks back at the domesticity of the AIDS crisis.

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Creature Discomfort: Art in the Cycle of History

It makes sense, at this most critical moment, to take a serious look at the art of the 1980s, its political fury and layered poetics, as an anchor in the storm.

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The Worst Years of Our Lives

As it happens, there are currently two exhibitions in New York that offer glimpses into the bonding of artistic communities in defiance of the encroaching darkness, first in rage and then in compassion.

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Longing for Keith Haring’s Lighthearted Penises

It may seem unusual to uphold a book of penis drawings as a significant art-historical moment, but Manhattan Penis Drawings for Ken Hicks creates an unignorable link between Haring’s early work and his homosexuality.