Protesters from the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, better known as ACT UP, targeted the Whitney Museum of American Art’s critically acclaimed David Wojnarowicz retrospective in New York on Friday ...

David Wojnarowicz, “Fuck You Faggot Fucker” (1984), four gelatin silver prints, acrylic, and collaged paper on composition board (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Arguably one of the most ...

Just in time for National Coming Out Day last Tuesday and the November opening of the controversial Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, Triple Canopy has ...

David Wojnarowicz has entered art history largely through controversy. Twenty years ago, his work, denounced in Congress as “federally subsidized porn,” was Exhibit A in the conservative attack on the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to the Chris McKim-directed documentary Wojnarowicz which is also known for its full, and for some, controversial title, Wojnarowicz: F**k You ...

David Wojnarowicz was both of his time, and way ahead of his time—an artist and activist who refused to consider the whims of the art world, and made art so beautifully abrasive and politically ...

David Wojnarowicz started writing fictions early. He didn’t always call them fiction, though. He was known especially to mythologize his early life, Cynthia Carr writes in Fire in the Belly: The Life ...

The title of this film, like the romantic and angry painting of the same name which it honors, is meant to shock, provoke curiosity, express deep personal and societal pain, and be impossible to ...

In the new David Wojnarowicz show at the Whitney, there’s a room with nothing in it. A 1992 recording of the artist reading from his memoir Close to the Knives plays to the white walls. The blinds are ...

Anyone who spends time at art fairs and museums has seen their fair share of art by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, such as his elegant piles of candy, paired clocks or light bulb strings. A new retrospective ...

“I’ve been on this crusade, kind of, to build instead of a luxury brand, a cultural brand. Cultural brands have to have responsibility, but that doesn’t mean that they have to be boring,” says ...