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Touring New York Through David Wojnarowicz’s Photos
Like many young artists, David Wojnarowicz was drawn to the idealism of Paris’s turn-of-the-century bohemians. He was particularly interested in Arthur Rimbaud, the French poet whose wild life and early death made him a patron saint of libertinism. In 1979, after a pilgrimage to Paris in his mid-twenties, Wojnarowicz created the photo series “Arthur Rimbaud in New York,” capturing his friends across the derelict American city, their faces covered by life-size masks of Rimbaud. The project has been exhibited in various ways since 1990, but a new exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in Manhattan is the first to present a wide variety of “Arthur Rimbaud in New York” prints (79 will be on display) alongside archival materials and ephemera, creating a multifaceted portrait of the artist’s life at the time. The works are both haunting and playful: a touching reminder that Wojnarowicz, who would go on to make some of the most striking protest art of the AIDS era before dying of complications from the disease, at age 37, was once just a kid who fanboyed over another artist. “Arthur Rimbaud in New York” will be on view from Oct. 1, 2025, through Jan. 18, 2026, at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, leslielohman.org.