"How Beautiful This Living Thing Is" gathers works by nine artists — Sheyla Baykal, Susan Brockman, Ray Johnson, Greer Lankton, Joseph Raffael, Gary Schneider, Paul Thek, Ann Wilson, and David Wojnarowicz — united by their friendship with photographer Peter Hujar. Inspired by the wordless zine Newspaper that Hujar published in 1968, the exhibition explores kinship, mentorship, and the invisible connections beneath the surface of shared artistic lives. Friendship, the curator notes, abhors order — it moves backwards and forwards across time, resisting the neatness of chronology.
