David Wojnarowicz is a classic tale of the ’80s New York art world. A teenage Times Square hustler, he ended up as a graffiti collaborator of Keith Haring, and like Haring he soon found himself a downtown gallery celebrity. The New Museum retrospective brings together paintings, sculpture, installations, drawings, photographs and short films by the prolific visionary who succumbed to AIDS in 1992, the year his photograph of a buffalo heading over a cliff was immortalised in the rock video for U2′s ‘One’.
Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz
November 5, 2008
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The King’s Singers
November 2, 2008The Musée d’Orsay’s English music season continues with this concert from the illustrious vocal ensemble The King’s Singers, which tonight perform music by Britten, Stanford, Gilbert & Sullivan, Morley and others.
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Japanese Art from the Langen Collection
November 1, 2008A visiting exhibition of Japanese art taken from a German collection may have something of a ‘coals to Newcastle’ feel about it, but the quality of some of the works of art on display here is rarely matched, even in this country’s many galleries and museums. The collection was amassed immediately after the war by a German industrialist who fell in love with oriental techniques. More than 70 pieces from the collection are on display, including Buddhist paintings and sculptures and examples of the fine craftsmanship of the Edo period.
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