The Guardian – February 2020
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Independent UK – February 2020
Does the Barbican’s Masculinities exhibition have important things to say about men?
For once, it’s the normative male who gets poked and prodded as a curiosity in this female-curated photography exhibition, and it may provoke bullish defensiveness among some. It forces Mark Hudson to look at himself
Document Journal – February 2020
The subversive photographs of ‘masculinity’ that challenged tradition before their time
Dazed Magazine – February 2020
Eight controversial photos depicting masculinity
From Ana Mendieta to David Wojnarowicz, these are the photographic statements that made us stop and think
Christies – February 2020
The art of love: 14 works that make our hearts beat faster
From Cupid to Kahlo to Keats — the artworks and objects that, when Valentine’s Day comes, encapsulate the power of love
Rebecca Jones: Head of Sale, Photographs
‘Peter Hujar met poet and visual artist David Wojnarowicz in 1980, a year before he made this portrait in his East Village studio. When I look at this picture, which was recently on show at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, I see the love between two people, both estranged from their birth families, left to build their own families within their marginalised community.
Peter Hujar: David Wojnarowicz Reclining (II), 1981. Vintage gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 in (50.8 × 40.6 cm). Courtesy Peter Hujar Archive, Pace/MacGill Gallery, and Fraenkel Gallery
‘Wojnarowicz was diagnosed with AIDS shortly after Hujar’s own AIDS-related death in 1987. In an interview Wojnarowicz once said, “Everything I made, I made for Peter.”’
https://www.christies.com/features/The-art-of-love-10287-1.aspx?sc_lang=en
Hyperallergic – January 2020
The Quiet Dignity of Peter Hujar
Artforum – January 2020
British Journal of Photography – January 2020
Any Answers: Michael Stipe
by Michael Grieve
There is one photograph that has had a profound effect on me. It’s by Peter Hujar of a man with an erect penis, called Seated Nude, Bruce de Sainte Croix from 1976. I saw it the first time I came to NYC in a small group show, and I had never seen nudity and sexuality shown with such grace and objectivity.
AnOther: January 2020
Planning Ahead: Ten Exhibitions You Can’t Afford to Miss in 2020
Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography at the Barbican, London: February 20 – May 17, 2020
Masculinity, and its many complex and contradictory iterations, will take centre stage in a new exhibition opening at The Barbican in February. Masculinities: Liberation through Photography will include the work of over 50 photographers and filmmakers from the 1960s through today – from Kenneth Anger, Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz to Laurie Anderson, Collier Schorr and Rineke Dijkstra. Each of the featured works serves to debunk or disrupt the myths surrounding modern masculinity in some way, while exploring how masculinity is “experienced, performed, coded and socially constructed”. The show will be divided into six sections, tackling themes of queer identity, the black body, power and patriarchy, female perceptions of men, heteronormative hypermasculine stereotypes, fatherhood and family.
https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12148/planning-ahead-the-best-exhibitions-to-see-in-2020
Le Figaro – December 2019
Peter Hujar brise les tabous de la culture queer
by Costanza Spina
London Review of Books – December 2019
At the Jeu de Paume
by Brian Dillon
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n24/brian-dillon/at-the-jeu-de-paume
The Brooklyn Rail – December 2019
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By Alissa Quart
The Eye of Photography – December 2019
Peter Hujar : Speed of Life
by Christophe Lunn
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/peter-hujar-speed-of-life-bb/
Frieze – November 2019
The Trash Couture of Stephen Varble
An artist who made a mockery of wealth and class pretensions is revivified as a prophet of possibility in a corrupted world. By Philomena Epps
https://frieze.com/article/trash-couture-stephen-varble
AnOther Magazine – November 2019
Peter Hujar Features in This New Photo Book About a Group of Exhibitionists
Salters Cottage by Gary Schneider(Film still)
In 1981 Gary Schneider made a short film about exhibitionism, featuring Peter Hujar and other friends. 38 years later, he has released it as a compelling book of portraits, published by Dashwood Books.
Another Man – November 2019
The Another Man Culture Guide: Things to Do in November
Werner Herzog, Michael Kiwanuka, Sterling Ruby and Peter Hujar: the best film, music, art and photography of the month
https://www.anothermanmag.com/life-culture/11002/the-another-man-culture-guide-things-to-do-in-november
the Barbican – Exhibition 2020
Press room
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography
https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/press-room/masculinities-liberation-through-photography
Creative Boom – November 2019
Major photography exhibition to spark conversations surrounding our understanding of masculinity
by Katy Cowan
https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/major-exhibition-to-show-how-photography-and-film-have-been-central-to-the-way-masculinities-are-imagined-and-understood-in-contemporary-culture/
Fraenkel Gallery – November 2019
Fraenkel Gallery: Paris Photo
GUP Magazine – October 2019
https://shop.gupmagazine.com/portraits-of-life-63
