Event Date
Wednesday, December 1 2010 : 1:00pm – 10:30pmLocation
The CenterDescription
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Center Visual Arts and Visual AIDS are proud to announce that the Tate Modern, The Museum of Art & Design, The New Museum, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Museum, El Museo del Barrio New York, The Museum of Sex, Grey Art Gallery at NYU, CCS Gallery at Bard College, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Union Gallery at University of Arizona, Rachel Uffner Gallery, Fales Library & Special Collections at NYU and The LGBT Center of NYC, among others, will mark 20 years of action and remembrance of Day With(out) Art by screening Last Address on December 1, 2010.
Keith Haring, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cookie Mueller, Joe Brainard, David Wojnarowicz, Hugh Steers, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, Klaus Nomi....the list of New York artists who died of AIDS over the last several decades is countless, and the loss immeasurable.
More About the Film
Last Address, by filmmaker Ira Sachs, uses images of the exteriors of the houses, apartment buildings, and lofts where these and others were living at the time of their deaths to mark the disappearance of a generation. The film is a remembrance of that loss, as well as an evocation of the continued presence of these artists’ work in our lives and culture.
To learn more about each of the artists honored in the film -- including biographies, interviews, performance
videos, audio recordings, essays, as well as to view the film itself — visit www.lastaddress.org.
Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
More About VIsual AIDS
Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness through producing and presenting visual art projects, while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement. Visual AIDS launched Day With(out) Art as a World AIDS Day initiative in 1988 to mourn those we have lost and to promote a broader awareness of the crisis. As the AIDS crisis and our understanding of it evolve, so must our actions. Visual AIDS continues to produce thoughtprovoking exhibitions, events and artist editions promoting HIV preventions and AIDS Awareness. visualAIDS.org
More About Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs is a filmmaker whose work includes the features Married Life (2007), The Delta (1997), and the
Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning Forty Shades of Blue (2005). He is the co-founder and curator of
Queer/Art/Film, a monthly series held at the IFC Center in New York. For more information, visit
www.queerartfilm.com and www.irasachs.com.
Price
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