by Jane Harris
Featuring the works
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Despite better drug treatments, and widespread public education, the AIDS crisis continues today. At the close of the millennium, such a fact remains troubling.
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"A Patient"
Rosalind Tobias |
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"Help Me, Help Angola, Help Africa"
Manuel Ngombo |
December 1, 1999 marked the 11th annual DAY WITHOUT ART, the international day of AIDS awareness, action and mourning. The most expansive yet, it included projects, exhibitions, and actions organized by over 8,000 museums, galleries, schools, libraries, non-profit and community centers, in addition to various AIDS Service providers.
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Begun in 1989 to promote education about the HIV virus, it now involves institutions as diverse as New York's St. John the Divine and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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"Are You All Right?"
Peter Illig
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"Composition N 7"
Alain Saverot
"Help Me!"
Manuel Ngombo
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This year saw a proliferation of activity on the internet. The AIDS organization Visual Arts launched a "Digital Day with(out) Art," focusing on past projects and publications. Another non-profit public arts program, Creative Time, created a site to commemorate the event with a "Vault" file that similarly archived its prior activities.
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Non-electronic observances included a 24-hour vigil and memorial reading of names at New York’s City Hall. The Empire State Building, St. Patrick's Cathedral and the Woolworth Building were among hundreds of national landmarks that turned off their lights for 15 minutes during the evening, completely altering Manhattan’s famous multi-colored skyline.
For more information on this amazing event, check out Visual Aids.
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"Oh God, why did you abandon me?"
Ricardo Gonzalez
"Kyle's Liberation"
Brian Leighton
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