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William Burroughs said Wojnarowicz had the voice of the traveler, the outcast, the thief.
led by a celebrity president who for years declined to even say the word AIDS aloud.
America saw Wojnarowiczs work as a threat; America was right.
The dying artist was fighting back with howling fury.
In 1989, the National Endowment for the Arts, under George H.W.
The catalogue had an essay by Wojnarowicz that the government found offensive.
Its at the Whitney.
Theres none of the color, marks, or neo-Expressionist graffiti that mark much of his earlier work here.
Everything has grown cold.
A 16-by-20-inch photographic collage is reversed or polarized so that it radiates an X-ray fluorescence.
Focus on it, however, and whats here is what should have terrified these sorts.
Ultimately, Wojnarowicz won his court case, but his detractors were required to pay him only $1.
Wojnarowicz writes, I reached in through the tv screen and ripped his face in half.
If you look close, you see two men engaged in sexual activity.
