• • IN PARIS DURING PARIS PHOTO

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    JEU DE PAUME

    1 Place de la Concorde
    75008 Paris

    Peter Hujar – Speed of life

    The life and art of Peter Hujar (1934–1987) are rooted in downtown New York. Private by nature, combative in manner, well read, and widely connected, Hujar inhabited a world of avant-garde dance, music, art, and drag performance. His career paralleled the public unfolding of gay life between the Stonewall uprising in 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. This retrospective exhibition presents a selection of 140 photographs that trace the journey of this complex artist over the course of three decades.

https://www.parisphoto.com/en/Home/Jeu-de-Paume-/

Life in the City

The photography and life of Peter Hujar (1934-1987) was deeply tied to New York. Based in a loft studio in the East Village, the artist captured striking images of the built landscape whilst celebrating the lives of individuals in crisp black-and-white portraits. Subjects included Susan Sontag, David Wojnarowicz, Fran Lebowitz, Sheryl Sutton and Gary Indiana – capturing the nuances of individuality and the creative spirit of the 20th century.

A solo show at Jeu de Paume, Paris, titled Speed of Life, shines a light on this work, highlighting the photographer’s engagement with the city and culture. The gallery notes: “Hujar inhabited a world of avant-garde dance, music, art, and drag performance. His mature career paralleled the public unfolding of gay life between the Stonewall uprising in 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.”

The show opens 15 October. Find out more here.

https://www.aestheticamagazine.com/life-in-the-city/

Art Out: Peter Hujar at Pace Gallery

by  Paloma Broussal-Lanusse

https://museemagazine.com/culture/2019/9/24/peter-hujar-at-the-pacemacgill-gallery

Peter Hujar

Speed of Life

from 15 October 2019

until 19 January 2020

Jeu de Paume, Paris

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

Peter Hujar: Master Class

• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 20196:00 PM
  SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 20197:00 PM
• https://museemagazine.com/events/2019/9/14/peter-hujar-master-class

Peter Hujar

14 Sep — 19 Oct 2019 at the Pace Gallery in New York, United States

https://wsimag.com/art/57491-peter-hujar

Pace Opens Chelsea Flagship, Setting New Standard For New York’s Mega Galleries

by Ariel Shapiro

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielshapiro/2019/09/14/pace-opens-chelsea-flagship-setting-new-standard-new-yorks-mega-galleries/#4c2a48a652c6

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