A firebrand
who raged against the hypocrisy and cruelty of American society through his
incendiary art, David Wojnarowicz shot like a comet through New York’s 1980s
art scene with works that denounced the homophobia and malignant that
accompanied the decades’s AIDS crisis. However, this retrospective did more
than just expose audiences to Wojnarowicz’s jeremiads: It also presented the
artist's lesser known poetic and visionary side, revealing him as a self-taught
genius who condensed his experiences as an abused child and urban poet into
artworks of extraordinary power.
Whitney
Museum of American Art
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