Good Grief

American Suburb X pre- or re-prints an article by Emily Colucci called Peter Hujar & David Wojnarowicz: Some Sort of Grace, also available in pdf at Anamesa, an interdisciplinary journal from NYU.  The article contextualizes Wojnarowicz art in mourning at the death of Hujar.
"After Hujar’s death in 1987, Wojnarowicz aspired to make
an entire film about the death of Peter Hujar and his own process of grieving. While he would never complete this film, there remains an approximately four-minute silent black-and-white segment with the deathbed footage of Hujar combined with clips of beluga
whales swimming. The video ends with an actor, as Hujar, being passed among a line of men in a portrayal of Hujar moving on in death."

This Supportico Lopez Berlin page features a few details on a past exhibition from February 13 to March 21, 2009, and this quote from "DW." "In the course of looking at all those negatives, I realized that the photographs were like words in a sentence and that what I try to do is to construct paragraphs out of the multiple images.”

For Maude Lang Syne

Ira Sachs and Adam Baran discuss artist picks and preferences for the 2010 Queer/Art/Film series, including David Wojnarowicz and Bea Arthur, in this Papermag article from January 25. 

This Daily Serving article from February 19, 2010, includes Wojnarowicz's "Untitled (Peter Hujar)," 1989, photo and places it within a death portrait canon including Hans Holbein, Albrecht Durer, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and John Baldessari.  It includes this quote from Closer to the Knives. "I tend to dismantle and discard any and all kinds of spiritual and psychic and physical world or concepts designed to make sense of the external world..."

Here's some sense for ya, Maude doing Sex and the City.  Yes, I live in a cave.