Ep.3 SEGMENT 5: Staffers on David Wojnarowicz




The Commonweal Podcast show

Summary: Staffers Griffin Oleynick, Nicole-Ann Lobo, and Meaghan Ritchey chat about the recently closed David Wojnarowicz exhibition at The Whitney Museum. Wojnarowicz was a multi-media artist working in NYC from the 1970's through 1992 when he died of AIDS-related complications. According to the exhibitions catalog, his "work documents and illuminates a desperate period of American history:... his rightful place is also among the raging and haunting iconoclastic voices."