• Artists

What the Art of the AIDS Era Can Teach Us Today

A scholar and curator discusses some artworks that resonate during the Covid-19 crisis.

• By
  Sarah Douglas
• Apr 14, 2020 2:35 pm

• Photos

Photos: Curator Jonathan Katz Discusses Art Related to the AIDS Crisis

• By
  Sarah Douglas
• Apr 14, 2020 2:31 pm

• Retrospective

Then and Now: As Wojnarowicz Is Our Witness

With a Whitney Museum retrospective having just opened, we look back at the artist, his influence, and his milieu.

• By
  The Editors of ARTnews
• Jul 13, 2018 10:00 am

• ARTnews

Is This the First AIDS Artwork?

Early pieces in a new exhibition approach the disease metaphorically

• By
  Sarah Douglas
• Sep 18, 2015 10:32 am

• News

L.A. “X”

LACMA's plan to open a show featuring Robert Mapplethorpe's gay sadomasochistic photographs two weeks before Election Day proves we've come a long way--maybe

• By
  Robin Cembalest
• Aug 28, 2012 9:33 am

• Features

Playing Hide and Seek in Brooklyn

The exhibition that made headlines at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 2010, "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,"  opens today at the Brooklyn Museum…

• By
  Brian Boucher
• Nov 17, 2011 3:18 pm

• Features

HideSeek to be Found in Brooklyn

The exhibition that sparked the now infamous censorship scandal last fall at the National Portrait Gallery is coming to Brooklyn. "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" will be on …

• By
  Stephanie Cash
• May 20, 2011 11:52 am

• Features

HideSeek Curator Speaks Up at CAA

Though not ostensibly about the censorship scandal that has roiled the art world, "Against Acknowledgement: Sexuality and the Instrumentalization of Knowledge," a panel chaired by Jonathan Katz, a "Hi…

• By
  Faye Hirsch
• Feb 10, 2011 5:38 pm