Brandon Truett is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Chicago. He is currently completing a dissertation on the literary, visual, and material cultures of the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to the present.
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In a retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago, Bordowitz reflects on living as a queer Jewish man with HIV and challenges us to understand the AIDS crisis as both historical and contemporary.
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Like her massive wall reliefs, Bontecou's works on paper evoke the world as fragile, teetering on the brink of total calamity.