Pace Gallery, Shaman-Approved, Opens Doors to New Eight-Story Flagship in New York

Peter Hujar

Master Class
14 September–19 October 2019

For the public opening of 540 West 25^th Street on Saturday, September 14, 2019, Pace/MacGill will present Peter Hujar Master Class. Featuring a selection of Hujar’s black-and-white portraits acquired by Richard Avedon in the 1970s, the exhibition examines the photographer’s idiomatic approach to portraiture that treated each photograph as a stand-alone object, capable of evoking complex emotions and expressions. The influence of Avedon’s acclaimed Master Class, a weekly seminar taught by Avedon and art director Marvin Israel at Avedon’s New York City studio and in which Hujar was enrolled in 1967, will also be examined through scholarly research. The Master Class included visiting speakers such as Diane Arbus and Lucas Samaras, and opened doors for a number of young photographers.

Avedon and Hujar remained friends following the workshop’s close and, over time, Avedon acquired the eight superb prints on view, each of which deftly captures Hujar’s avant-garde circle with penetrating sensitivity and psychological depth. The exhibition will also include Hujar’s four-part work made during the Master Class, ‘Nude Self-Portrait Series’ #1, #2, #3, #4 (1967).

https://www.pacegallery.com/galleries/new-york/

https://www.connaissancedesarts.com/photographie/les-expos-de-la-rentree-2019-photo-11124784/

For Interpretation

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2603/a-new-biography-of-susan-sontag-23607

Post-Stonewall, drenched in sunlight:  Alvin Baltrop chronicled the sexual frontier of ’70s New York

by Miss Rosen

Post-Stonewall, drenched in sunlight: Alvin Baltrop chronicled the sexual frontier of ’70s New York

An ambitious survey of underrecognized gay artists of the last half century.

by Arthur Lubow

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/arts/design/chicago-overlooked-stonewall-art.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&action=click&contentCollection=arts&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&utm_source=Breakfast+with+ARTnews&utm_campaign=8b686a3353-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_02_06_34&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c5d7f10ceb-8b686a3353-293940819

Peter Hujar: Speed of Life

from 15 October 2019 until 19 January 2020

Concorde, Paris

http://www.jeudepaume.org/index.php?page=article&idArt=3420

Pace/MacGill Moves to New Headquarters

For its inaugural show in Chelsea, Pace/MacGill will present a selection of black-and-white portraits by Peter Hujar acquired beginning September 14, 2019.

https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/3704837/pacemacgill-moves-to-new-headquarters

Kiss My Genders an intelligent collection that challenges assumptions – review

by Chris Selman

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/124409/kiss-my-genders-an-intelligent-collection-that-challenges-assumptions-review/

In Inaugural Pride Sales at Sotheby’s and Swann, Collectors Snatch Up Works by Peter Hujar, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe

by Maximiliano Duron

In Inaugural Pride Sales at Sotheby’s and Swann, Collectors Snatch Up Works by Peter Hujar, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe

Pride Sale Makes Swann Proud

The top lot in the sale was Peter Hujar, “David Wojnarowicz: Manhattan-Night (III),” silver print, 1985.

Estimated at $15/25,000, it sold to a private collector on the phone for $106,250 and set a new auction record for any work by the artist.

https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/pride-sale-makes-swann-proud/

Don Herron, the photographer who took pictures of iconic artists in the bathtub

by Lee Thomas-Mason

Don Herron, the photographer who took pictures of iconic artists in the bathtub

Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend

From a travelling survey show on Stonewall to bronze sculptures of everyday objects

by Gareth Harris and Victoria Stapley-Brown

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/review/three-exhibitions-to-see-in-new-york-this-weekend30

Kiss My Genders at Hayward Gallery is an exhibition defiantly on its own terms

by Hettie Judah

Kiss My Genders at Hayward Gallery is an exhibition defiantly on its own terms — and it’s free for one day to celebrate Pride

LGBT artists sent messages from the closet to survive before Stonewall. Now, homophobes are coopting the technique.

by Philip Kennicott

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/lgbt-artists-sent-messages-from-the-closet-to-survive-before-stonewall-now-homophobes-coopting-the-technique/2019/06/20/96540414-8c8a-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cda6ca031ba0

This Is What Sotheby’s Big Gay Pride Auction Will Look Like

by Syra Taub

This Is What Sotheby’s Big Gay Pride Auction Will Look Like

Gay Art Auctions: Does the Label Help or Hurt an Artist’s Market?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-21/gay-art-auctions-warhol-hujar-hockney-leibovitz-ritts-bacon

Kiss My Genders Review

by Eddy Frankel

https://www.timeout.com/london/art/kiss-my-genders-review

Going out: Art worth kissing and telling about

by Nicole Mowbray

Going out: Art worth kissing and telling about