In conjunction with the artist’s retrospective at the Whitney, a exhibition of the installations of David Wojnarowicz is now on view in Chelsea.
SOON ALL THIS WILL BE PICTURESQUE RUINS—THE INSTALLATIONS OF DAVID WOJNAROWICZ
Through August 24.
P.P.O.W., 535 West 22nd Street, New York City.
Above: David Wojnarowicz (center) in You Killed Me First (1985), directed by Richard Kern.
Below: David Wojnarowicz, Science Totem, 1983 (detail).
Harris Dickinson—fresh from his Beach Rats and Trust triumphs—returns to Outfest in the very stylish drama POSTCARDS FROM LONDON (think Caravaggio meets Pink Narcissus), where he joins a troupe of erudite, art-loving hustlers.
POSTCARDS FROM LONDON marks the return of writer-director Steve McLean, whose last film was Postcards from America, the 1994 feature based on the writings of David Wojnarowicz.
POSTCARDS FROM LONDON
Friday, July 20, at 8:30 pm.
Ford Amphitheatre
2580 Cahuenga Boulevard East, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.
Harris Dickinson in Postcards from London, from top: center foreground; above; and below second from left.
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 HUJAR—LIFE 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.
Above: Peter Hujar, Diana Vreeland (II), 1975. © Estate of Peter Hujar, courtesy of Maureen Paley, London, and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Below: Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz, 1981. © Estate of Peter Hujar, courtesy of Maureen Paley, London, and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.
“Symbols are more meaningful than things themselves.”— Jenny Holzer, from Truisms, in LARRY CLARK—WHITE TRASH
Larry Clark is one of the great New York collectors, and the walls of his Tribeca loft present an ever-changing gallery of the art he has bought, traded, been given by friends, or created himself over the last half century.
LARRY CLARK—WHITE TRASH, at Luring Augustine Bushwick, is an exhibition of artworks from Clark’s personal collection. In addition to the work below, participating artists include: Vito Acconci, Richard Artschwager, Donald Baechler, Max Blagg, Lisa Bowman, Chris Burden, Jeff Elrod, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Frank, Paul Gauguin, Robert Gober, Mark Gonzales, Martin Kippenberger, Sherrie Levine, Paul McCarthy, Bjarne Melgaard, Scott Myles, Méret Oppenheim, Jack Pierson, Jason Polan, Sigmar Polke, Christy Rupp, Philip Taaffe, Koichiro Takagi, Sally Webster, Sue Williams, Franz West, Brian Weil, David Wojnarowicz, and Christopher Wool.
LARRY CLARK—WHITE TRASH, through June 18.
LUHRING AUGUSTINE BUSHWICK, 25 Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn.
luhringaugustine.com/exhibitions/larry-clark9
i-d.vice.com/en_au/article/larry-clark-on-his-astoundingly-eccentric-personal-art-collection
Image credits (top to bottom): Joe Andoe, Spaniard in the Works, 2012, oil on canvas; Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2008, Xerox print; Mike Kelley, Blood and Soil (Potato Print), 1989, silkscreen in colors on a silk banner; Richard Prince, Untitled (Joke), 2013, ink jet on canvas; Wallace Berman, Untitled, 1967, verifax collage; Helmut Newton, Larry Clark, Cannes, 1995, photograph; Raymond Pettibon, No Title (They Ought To…), 1985, pen and ink on paper.
