The Weight of the Earth

There’s a small and enviable group of visual artists whose work with the written word is every bit as impressive as their more well-known artistic expression. That’s certainly the case with David Wojnarowicz, whose vital and impassioned works blended the personal and political to a stunning extent… With a major retrospective of Wojnarowicz’s artwork opening at the Whitney next month, and given that many of his concerns about art, society, and governmental inaction remain all too relevant today, the time is right to experience his work—and The Weight of the Earth is a particularly direct way to do so.

….offers readers a unique perspective on the artist’s inner life; it also sheds light on the daily life of individuals living with the threat of a deadly disease.

David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was a painter, filmmaker, photographer, writer, AIDS activist, and one of the most prominent figures in the New York art world of the 1980s.

Lisa Darms is a writer, archivist and art appraiser. As the senior archivist at NYU’s Fales Library and Special Collections, she worked with the archives of many downtown artists, including David Wojnarowicz. She is the editor of The Riot Grrrl Collection. She lives in New York.

David O’Neill is a writer in New York and the managing editor of Bookforum.

David Velasco is the editor of Artforum and the author of Sarah Michelson.

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