‘Love can be an addiction’: Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency
- Posted on January 15, 2026
- By The Guardian
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‘Love can be an addiction’: Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency

For the first time in the UK, the photographer’s magnum opus is going on display in its entirety – introducing new viewers to New York’s edgy downtown scene and a generation lost to Aids. Here, she looks back at the ‘fearlessness and wildness’ of her life and times