THE ART NEWSPAPER: New York City celebrates David Wojnarowicz’s 70th birthday

This Saturday (14 September) would have been the late artist and activist David Wojnarowicz’s 70th birthday. To mark the occasion, several New York City institutions are teaming up with the artist’s foundation, Visual Aids, and the gallery PPOW (which represents his estate) for a weekend of celebrations in the city Wojnarowicz called home. The artist died of Aids in 1992, aged 37.

Capping off the weekend on Saturday evening (14 September) will be a staging of Wojnarowicz’s The Waterfront Journals monologues at the New York City Aids Memorial in Greenwich Village. The band Rimbaud Hattie will accompany the readings—its members used to play with Wojnarowicz in the band 3 Teens Kill 4 in the 1980s. A candlelit procession will follow the performance, ending at the LGBTQ Memorial in Hudson River Park.