A biography of two gay artists whose lives traced a changing queer world.

A tender but unflinching account of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, forgotten stars of the 1960s scene

A new book uncovers the yearning romance that fueled the Aids-era artists’ life and work

Virtual Memories Show 673: Andrew Durbin “I think we live in an era that is so deprived of authenticity, where people can’t live the lives Peter and Paul did, and so many young people a…

Film series. Apr 21–25, 2026. On the occasion of the publication of Andrew Durbin’s dual biography The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, we present a four-day scree...

There are only a few surviving recordings of the photographer Peter Hujar’s voice. In the portion of his archive at the Morgan Library in New York, a

There are only a few surviving recordings of the photographer Peter Hujar’s voice. In the portion of his archive at the Morgan Library in New York, a

In recent decades, most artists representing the UK in Venice have been born in the 1960s. Did Britain stop innovating?

A year in Palestine, living in fear of not just genocide — but AIDS.