A new exhibition at New York’s PPOW Gallery displays David Wojnarowicz’s letters to his former lover Jean Pierre – here, his biographer Cynthia Carr talks about his tender, furious artistic legacy.
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CC: I did the biography because his boyfriend, Tom Rauffenbart, who at that point was the executor of his estate, asked me to write it. Someone once said, ‘These aren’t biographies, they’re cultural histories,’ and I think in a way that really is true. The context is important, so in the book about David, I could write about the East Village scene, which by then had pretty much disappeared.
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