David wojnarowicz

The enduring symbolism of a sewn mouth, from the works of David Wojnarowicz to recent protests by refugees

David Wojnarowicz in Dianne B. Fashion Shoot

Cynthia Carr conveys David Wojnarowicz’s spirit, and the energies he applied to becoming himself, loving a few people, and making a difference.

David O’Neill on “Dear Jean Pierre,” a book that documents the relationship and correspondence between the artist David Wojnarowicz and the actor Jean-Pierre Delage.

Wojnarowicz, David: Arthur Rimbaud in New York

A show at PPOW gallery explores the artist and author’s first significant relationship, with Jean Pierre Delage, which liberated him emotionally and changed him artistically.

In Brush Fires in the Social Landscape, the book of David Wojnarowicz‘s photo-based work that was published posthumously in 1994, cameras are passed from artist to artist, artist to critic, critic to librarian. They move between people like AIDS, the disease which claimed Wojnarowicz in 1992 (the year he began work on the project) and his close […]

While at The Piers: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, one question kept popping up in my mind: What is with this obsessive nostalgia for the decaying, destroyed and often depressing New York of the past, particularly as connected to the emerging gay subculture and downtown art scene of the 1970s and '80s?