Staying to the End: Gossip, Banter, and Loss in Peter Hujar’s Friendships
The year is 1974, and a pack of cigarettes costs 56 cents in New York. Photographer Peter Hujar spends 89 cents on an Oscar…
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The Boy in the Bathroom: Tom Burr’s Torrington Project
It was with a frisson of anticipatory delight that I crossed the threshold of Tom Burr’s warehouse in Connecticut, two hours northeast of New…
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Peter Hujar’s Still Life in Motion
There is a photograph installed near the end of Peter Hujar: Rialto at New York’s Ukrainian Museum that still holds my attention. It is…
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Thief
If they were lucky, novels about artists published in the past year got to ride the wave of a literary trend termed “Künstlermania.” The…
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