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“Many of these images—their vitality and their message are really powerful and relevant to the current AIDS crisis that we face,” Grace says. “But their currency is dialed into a historical moment. You don’t see...
“ACT UP New York” is an invitation to dialogue. “This exhibition is an invitation to go deeper and think about the political, social, and cultural components of the AIDS crisis, and the fact that it continues, and it’s not...
Yet the very gesture of gathering visual media from the movement into a gallery is to fix ACT UP in time, and to soften its message that the AIDS crisis is ongoing.
Students will also have the opportunity to work with members Fierce Pussy, an artist collective who were heavily involved in the movement and whose work will be featured in the exhibition, sponsored by the Women’s Center of Harvard College. “They did action art in...
Still whether or not “ACT UP New York” will impress the pertinence of the AIDS crisis upon the Harvard population, it serves as an important demonstration of the poignancy of the visual arts.