Drag queens and artists star in Peter Hujar’s New York portraits

The bygone bohemia of the Seventies and Eighties is chronicled in the work of the late photographer – by Josh Spero

https://www.ft.com/content/3a0b3658-ffff-4e65-b4eb-105d98eca3ec

Pace Gallery’s Peter Hujar show ‘Cruising Utopia’ was chosen as one of the best photo stories of 2020 by Another Magazine!

https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13030/the-best-photo-stories-of-2020-portrayals-of-sex-and-identity

EMOP Berlin 2020 : Gropius Bau : Masculinities : Liberation through Photography

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/emop-berlin-2020-gropius-bau-masculinities-liberation-through-photography-df/

WHO SHAPED THE PAST 100 YEARS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

A new show at the National Portrait Gallery spotlights 24 authors, including Lorraine Hansberry, Sandra Cisneros and Maxine Hong Kingston

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/women-writers-who-shaped-20th-century-american-literature-180975872/

Remembering the Cockettes, Trailblazing, Trendsetting 1970s Drag Queens

After electrifying San Francisco with their gender-bending performances and wild psychedelic chic, the group trekked to New York for a much-hyped—and ill-fated—East Coast debut. A new book bears witness to their brief, glittery glory. – Maureen Orth, Vanity Fair

https://thecockettes.net/

In Memoriam : Cusie Pfeifer

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/in-memoriam-cusie-pfeifer-dd/

Wolfgang Tillmans Is Holding an Artist Poster Sale to Support Queer Nightlife in NYC

by Liam Hess

https://www.vogue.com/article/between-bridges-wolfgang-tillmans-artist-poster-sale-nyc-queer-nightlife

Peter Hujar Captured His Lover and Friends in These Subversive Photographs

Text: Jacqui Palumbo
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-peter-hujar-captured-lover-friends-subversive-photographs

Peter Hujar’s Illicit Photographs of New York’s Cruising Utopia

In a new online exhibition, we are confronted with two Hujars: the studio photographer who captured his community; and the flaneur who cruised New York’s West Side

TEXT: Osman Can Yerebakan

https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12659/peter-hujar-s-cruising-utopia-pace-gallery-exhibition

Good News: The Barbican’s Masculinities Exhibition Has Been Extended

The London institution has announced that it will open its doors again later this month

by Belle Hutton

https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12643/barbican-masculinities-liberation-through-photography-opening-dates-exhibition

The online Peter Hujar exhibition you need to see now

Pace Gallery’s ‘Peter Hujar: Cruising Utopia’ combines unreleased images from the late photographer’s archive with some of his best-known portraits.

https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/qj4jg5/peter-hujar-cruising-utopia-pace-gallery-online-exhibition

Rarely seen Peter Hujar photographs feature in this online exhibition

Cruising Utopia delves into the photographer’s archives – from his intimate studio portraits to NYC’s incredible queer community in the 70s and 80s

ByAshleigh Kane

https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/49732/1/rarely-seen-peter-hujar-photographs-feature-in-this-online-exhibition

PETER HUJAR CAPTURES QUEER BLISS IN “CRUISING UTOPIA”

IN A NEW DIGITAL EXHIBITION AT PACE GALLERY, PHOTOGRAPHER PETER HUJAR EXPLORES THE WORLD OF QUEER CRUISING.

By WALLACE LUDEL

Pace Gallery shuts down homophobic slurs on Instagram over Peter Hujar photographs

In Pride Month post, gallery speaks out against “individuals who wish to degrade marginalised communities”

GARETH HARRIS

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/pace-gallery-men-kissing-instagram?null

Take a Virtual Tour Through This “Art after Stonewall” Exhibition

The 1969 uprising in New York City changed the art world—and the world at large—forever.

Peter Hujar: the legacy, life, and loves of the bohemian photographer

Peter Hujar Foundation director and friend Stephen Koch reflects on the photographer’s illustrious career and tense friendships with Robert Mapplethorpe and Diane Arbus

TextAshleigh Kane

https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/48548/1/peter-hujar-the-legacy-life-and-loves-of-the-bohemian-photographer

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