1 May 2021 – 30 Jun 2021
Ocula Magazine: May 2020
Peter Hujar: The Show Must Go On
By Laurie Barron | London, 5 May 2021
Exhibition at Maureen Paley Gallery, London
https://ocula.com/magazine/features/the-show-must-go-on-peter-hujar-at-maureen-paley/
Book Release: April 2021
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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Christie’s – April 2021
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ALVIN FRIEDMAN-KIEN
Live Auction April 6, 2021
Self-Portrait, 1975
Saint Louis Art Museum – March 2021
i-D Magazine – February 2021
No one photographed New York’s drag scene like Peter Hujar by Belle Hutton
https://i-d.vice.com/en_au/article/k7ayky/1970s-new-york-drag-scene-peter-hujar-photography
Financial Times – January 2021
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
AnOther Magazine – December 2020
Pace Gallery’s Peter Hujar show ‘Cruising Utopia’ was chosen as one of the best photo stories of 2020 by Another Magazine!
The Eye of Photography – October 2020
EMOP Berlin 2020 : Gropius Bau : Masculinities : Liberation through Photography
National Portrait Gallery – September 2020
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
The Cockettes – 2020
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
Fraenkel Gallery – September 2020
L’ŒIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE – July 2020
In Memoriam : Cusie Pfeifer
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/in-memoriam-cusie-pfeifer-dd/
Vogue – July 2020
Wolfgang Tillmans Is Holding an Artist Poster Sale to Support Queer Nightlife in NYC
by Liam Hess
Artsy – July 2020
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
AnOther – July 2020
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
AnOther – July 2020
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
i-D Magazine – July 2020
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
Dazed – July 2020
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
Cultured Mag – July 2020
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