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Thomas Block Rubnitz (April 2, 1956 – August 12, 1992) was an American painter, video artist, and AIDS activist. He was a part of the New York City drag world of the late 1980s, and he has been described as "an exuberant ethnographer of the East Village queer scene."
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Visual AIDS | Tom Rubnitz. Tom Rubnitz. 1956–1992. Over the course of the 1980s and up until his untimely death from HIV/AIDS related complications in 1992, Tom Rubnitz captured the personalities and energy of the East Village scene in his loony, anarchic, and hallucigenically-colored short videos.
Tom Rubnitz. Born 1956 - Chicago, Illinois. Died 1992. A quintessential New York underground film/video artist, the late Tom Rubnitz took a bite out of the Big Apple and spat it out in a wild kaleidoscope of unequivocal camp and hallucinogenic color. Ann Magnuson, the B-52s, The “Lady” Bunny, and the late John Sex are but a few of the stars ...
15 Minutes. Staff Picks. Date. October 1-31, 2023. Listen To This is a fragment of collective memory that finds critical relevance in contemporary queer discourse. Tom Rubnitz weaves narration, image, and a form of temporality dislocated from real time into a video where artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz’s loss, rage, and desire is ...
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Aug 12, 1992 · Thomas Block Rubnitz was an American video artist most often associated with the New York City East Village drag queen scene of the late 1980s. His video tapes were mainly inspired by pop culture and Las Vegas-style shows. A number of his works featured RuPaul and members of The B-52s.
The work of Tom Rubnitz can be described by an array of adjectives including sexy, glamorous, campy, hallucinogenic, hedonistic, joyful, and romantic, but the heart of the work is the New York City queer community who collaborated on this bouquet of images from the 1980s-90s.