Ben Whishaw again proves himself as the brilliant actor we all knew he was, if we were looking closely enough, in Ira Sachs' ...

The performance is thrillingly lived-in — from Peter’s contemplative thought process to the seductive fluidity of his movements. Unlike his contemporary, Robert Mapplethorpe, Hujar was one of ...

Ben Whishaw in "Peter Hujar's Day" by Ira Sachs. Credit: Sundance Institute From Ira Sachs — director of the striking contemporary queer drama Passages — the 1970s New York-set Peter Hujar's ...

It's based on a transcript of Hujar's description of what he did in one day, which in the film becomes anything but ordinary. A transcript of that recorded conversation was recently discovered ...

Peter Hujar, Ethyl Eichelberger, 1979. © 2025 the Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, DACS London, Pace Gallery, NY, Fraenkel Gallery, SF ...

Following the film’s Sundance premiere and sale to Sideshow and Janus Films, “Peter Hujar’s Day” has released a first look. The clip features a conversation between Hujar and Rosenkrantz ...

Peter Hujar’s Day, the upcoming film starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, has unveiled its first image. The biopic, which sees Whishaw reunite with director Ira Sachs following their ...

Peter Hujar Behind the Camera and in the Darkroom ... Stuyvesant Park, described in my book, the piers and the trucks were theatrical sets to play out these courting rituals.

Can a doodle also be a masterpiece? Maybe it’s not fair to call Peter Hujar’s Day a doodle, though Ira Sachs’s film, clocking in at 76 minutes, wears its modesty on its sleeve. Consisting of ...

One recent sweltering summer afternoon, photographer Ethan James Green and I escaped the heat by visiting the Ukrainian Museum in New York to see “Peter Hujar: Rialto.” In the dog days of a ...

There’s a self-portrait that shows Peter Hujar mid-leap. The picture is taken in a room, presumably in Hujar’s own East Village loft—at a time, 1974, when it was hard to imagine that the ...