Hilton Als reviews Cynthia Carr’s new biography of Candy Darling, the trans actress and Warhol star, who worked brilliantly to create a persona but had no control over how that persona was used or not used.
Thirty-two years after his death, the mainstream art world is increasingly paying tribute to the legacy of artist, writer, activist and photographer David Wojnarowitz. The latest example of this is a
Gail Thacker’s photographs have been soaking up the scars of time for several decades, as the current solo exhibition Midnight Call at Candice Madey Gallery reveals.
Darrel Ellis (1958–1992) was engaged in a lifelong love affair with history, from the European nineteenth and twentieth century paintings that he meticulously studied on visits to the MoMA and the Met to the 1950s negatives he inherited from his photographer father. But like any love affair, this one did not come without quarrels. Traveling from the Baltimore Museum of Art, Darrel Ellis: Regeneration at the Bronx Museum is the first major museum exhibition of Ellis’s work. Expanded to triple the size of the previous venue in his birthplace, the Bronx Museum installation presents nearly two hundred works on paper, paintings, photographs, and archival material. It is an impressively comprehensive survey of Ellis’s oeuvre.