Newspaper was a queer underground magazine co-edited by Peter Hujar and Steve Lawrence featuring the likes of Andy Warhol, Diane Arbus and Iggy Pop. Now, their back issues are being republished ✨
’s original surviving copies are, by now, too delicate to be handled. “We wanted to make something that would at least allow people to look at it,” explains Yáñez. But since the majority of his research has come from conversations with Hujar’s friends, its republication is also timely. The painter Joseph Raffael, a regular contributor, died in 2021. Ann Wilson, a sculptor, artist and writer, passed away last month at the age of 91.What happened to Lawrence afterremains a mystery.
Things with Hujar ended badly in 1971. He moved into a shack in Oakleyville. His mental health declined. That we know this much is credit to Yáñez’s sleuthing, but after 1979, when Lawrence left New York, the trail goes cold. “There’s nothing else I’ve found so far,” says Yáñez. “He was evicted a lot, which I’ve learned from a landlady’s journals. Most of his stuff likely ended up in the trash.
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