https://www.theartnewspaper.com/review/three-exhibitions-to-see-in-new-york-this-weekend-23-april
1 May 2021 – 30 Jun 2021
3695 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
By Laurie Barron | London, 5 May 2021
https://ocula.com/magazine/features/the-show-must-go-on-peter-hujar-at-maureen-paley/
The Shabbiness of Beauty
Moyra Davey & Peter Hujar
The Shabbiness of Beauty is a visual dialogue that crosses generational divides with the easy intimacy of a late-night phone call. Multidisciplinary artist Moyra Davey delved into Peter Hujar’s archives and emerged mainly with little-known, scarcely seen images. In response to these, Davey created her own images that draw out an idiosyncratic selection of shared subjects. Side by side, the powerfully composed images admire, tease, and enhance one another in the manner of fierce friends, forming a visual exploration of physicality and sexuality that crackles with wit, tenderness, and perspicacity. Spiritually anchored in New York City – even as they range out to rural corners of Quebec and Pennsylvania – these images crystallise tensions between city and country, human and animal. Nudes pose with unruly chickens; human bodies are abstracted toward topography; seascapes and urban landscapes share the same tremulous plasticity. These continuities are punctuated by stark differences of approach: Davey’s self-aware postmodernism against Hujar’s humanism and embrace of darkroom manipulation. The rich dialogue between these photographs is personal and angular, ultimately offering an illuminating reintroduction to each celebrated artist through communion with the other’s work.
Embossed printed hardback
17 x 24cm, 128 pages
ISBN 978-1-913620-20-2
April 2021
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ALVIN FRIEDMAN-KIEN
Live Auction April 6, 2021
Self-Portrait, 1975
https://i-d.vice.com/en_au/article/k7ayky/1970s-new-york-drag-scene-peter-hujar-photography
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!
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://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/in-memoriam-cusie-pfeifer-dd/
by Liam Hess
Text: Jacqui Palumbo
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-peter-hujar-captured-lover-friends-subversive-photographs
TEXT: Osman Can Yerebakan
by Belle Hutton
https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/qj4jg5/peter-hujar-cruising-utopia-pace-gallery-online-exhibition