World AIDS day
Dec. 1st, 2012 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
likethebeerAnd the Day Without Art. The Day Without Art is usually noted through the covering up of certain works of art (public art as well as in galleries/museums) so that you can't see them - it's done to draw attention to the epidemic.
Aside from completing the Masters, the thing I am most proud of from Grad School (where I was getting a degree in Art History) was that myself & other grad students created a series of presentations on Dec. 1 about artists who were living with, or who had died of, AIDS-related illnesses. We were activated to do this because the museum in which we were getting our degrees had never acknowledged the Day Without Art, even though it had been going on in the art world for 5 years.
The art world (particularly in NYC) was hit very hard by AIDS in the '80s and into the '90s. I got in the habit, when the new Art in America magazine came out every month, of immediately flipping to the obits to see which artists had died of AIDS-related illnesses. There was always at least one person, and oftentimes 2. There they were - these guys in their 20s-50s who died as a result of AIDS, listed along with artists in their 60s-90s.
After our day of presentations by students, the museum finally started to acknowledge the day.
Aside from completing the Masters, the thing I am most proud of from Grad School (where I was getting a degree in Art History) was that myself & other grad students created a series of presentations on Dec. 1 about artists who were living with, or who had died of, AIDS-related illnesses. We were activated to do this because the museum in which we were getting our degrees had never acknowledged the Day Without Art, even though it had been going on in the art world for 5 years.
The art world (particularly in NYC) was hit very hard by AIDS in the '80s and into the '90s. I got in the habit, when the new Art in America magazine came out every month, of immediately flipping to the obits to see which artists had died of AIDS-related illnesses. There was always at least one person, and oftentimes 2. There they were - these guys in their 20s-50s who died as a result of AIDS, listed along with artists in their 60s-90s.
After our day of presentations by students, the museum finally started to acknowledge the day.
