The Conversation Art Podcast
Episode 387: Peter Hujar and Paul Thek's "Wonderful World That Almost Was," with writer and Frieze editor Andrew Durbin
May 23, 202650 min · 8,715 words
Show notes
Writer and Frieze editor-in-chief Andrew Durbin talks about: His book tour for "The Wonderful World That Almost Was," which has been hectic; how he became familiar with Peter Hujar's work initially, and why his and Paul Tek's legacies really took off after their deaths; Peter's persona and personality as someone who could be as charming and engaging as can be, but also someone who flew off the handle with a volatile anger at some in his life, and how he ac…
Highlighted moments
he approached photography from such a i mean for lack of a better term a very painterly way certainly how he produced his images in the dark room is very painterly
“he knew that very subtle shifts in contrast could change the meaning of an image very quickly”
“the conservative art world didn't really know what to do with an artist who had refused the market as intensely as paul had and this is a time when the art world was basically only a market”
“his final uh two exhibitions the paintings are actually scaled for children so they're installed quite low in front of little little chairs you might see in an elementary school”
Transcript
Transcript not available for this episode yet.
More from The Conversation Art Podcast
Episode 389: The Conversation presents: The Intrepid Artist, an Advice podcast- Episode 1, with co-host Arleene Correa Valencia
Aug 8, 202636 min
Episode 388: Lauren O'Neill-Butler on Artist Activism, Artforum magazine and the seminal Project Row Houses in Houston
Jun 20, 202652 min
Episode 386- James Delbourgo on the 'Noble Madness' of collectors- from Charles Foster Kane to Norman Bates and others, and what Freud had to say about all of them
Apr 25, 20261h 4m
Episode 385- Useful Art explodes what your sense of Art with a capital "A" is and can be, with John Byrne, author of "Useful Art- How Activist Artists Can Change the World"
Mar 28, 20261h 9m
Episode 384: Boston artist and lifelong art school teacher on photography and teaching in art schools for 46 years
Feb 21, 202651 min