Andrew Durbin

Andrew Durbin is editor-in-chief of Frieze.

At the Gay Bar

Andrew Durbin, 6 January 2022

At some point​ on a night out an older queen will swing down from the rafters to let you know you’re too late. Five, maybe ten years ago, he explains, it was much better here. The music was better, the clientele was better, the neighbourhood was less gentrified, more authentic. What is he still doing here then? It doesn’t matter. Encounter him often enough and you begin to...

Almost in exchange for the trustingness of his subjects, Peter Hujar became a different person when he was behind the camera: his rage, which caused one of his close friends to describe him in an obituary...

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