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Posted inArt

The Edgy and Lucid Video Art of Rafael França

by Ela Bittencourt January 25, 2022January 25, 2022

Video art was something you watched “with the lights on,” as França insisted, without pretenses of high art.

Posted inFilm

New Anthony Fauci Documentary Shows Why His Hero Image Is Flawed

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel October 11, 2021October 11, 2021

Fauci is not quite a hagiography of “America’s doctor,” but it comes close. It ignores or twists the flaws in his responses to both AIDS and COVID-19.

Posted inArt

A Tribute to Artists Lost to AIDS Left Me With Mixed Feelings

by Ksenia M. Soboleva July 28, 2021July 28, 2021

I have to credit David Zwirner for attempting to include the queer community, but I can’t help but feel conflicted about the whole initiative.

Posted inArt

Critics Question Restaging of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Fortune Cookie Installations During Pandemic

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia June 22, 2020July 28, 2021

Galleries David Zwirner and Andrea Rosen asked 1,000 participants to recreate a work consisting of a pile of fortune cookies. But staging the work with little context, amid a global pandemic and mounting anti-Asian sentiment, struck some as poorly thought-out.

Posted inNews

Visual AIDS Launches New Online Platform, “Not Over”

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia May 11, 2020July 28, 2021

With its annual fundraiser canceled, the nonprofit encourages donations on a free online platform featuring rare videos and performances by multi-generational artists including the late Jack Smith.

Posted inFilm

A Searing, First-Person Look at the AIDS Crisis Told Through the Eyes of a Couple

by Joshua Kaplan August 12, 2019November 4, 2019

The 1993 documentary Silverlake Life presents an unusual perspective on daily life with a deadly disease.

Posted inArt

Revisiting the Provocative AIDS Art of Robert Blanchon

Avatar photo by Jeremy Lybarger December 1, 2018December 3, 2018

The artist’s aim was to “elevate the physiological aspects of HIV to a level of reality that represents the pain, loss, and massive suffering caused by this plague.”

Posted inPodcast

Who Was Artist David Wojnarowicz? We Find Out

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 24, 2018April 19, 2022

After two actions led by ACT UP activists encouraged the Whitney Museum to change a wall label, we went looking for people who could tell us who Wojnarowicz was and help us decipher his complex life and art.

Posted inArt

Looking at Queer Constellations of Intimacy

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 20, 2018August 20, 2018

Intimacy at Yossi Milo Gallery unites a diverse assembly of artists tracing the outline of affection from the 1980s to present day.

Posted inPerformance

Where Gayness Goes in the Angels in America Revival

by David Lê July 6, 2018December 16, 2021

The revival of Tony Kushner’s play offers a lens into gayness in the dimension of history — what is intransigent, what is still promissory, and what is so profoundly disappointing.

Posted inArt

A History of Erasing Black Artists and Bodies from the AIDS Conversation

by Ted Kerr December 31, 2015November 18, 2016

The murderous impact of homophobia on the AIDS crisis is so apparent and traumatic that the violent, systemic racism that undergirds it gets lost.

Posted inArt

AIDS, Abstraction, and Absent Bodies: A Conversation with Mark Bradford

by Alina Cohen December 9, 2015December 24, 2015

At first sight, Mark Bradford’s paintings attract viewers with their bright colors and often grand scale.

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