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...personal meditation of enormous poetry. The director, with disturbing honesty, addresses the irreconcilable differences between those who are terminally ill and those who are not. The film forces the viewer to confront the hypocrisy surrounding AIDS. While awareness is necessary, there is a gulf separating those exhibiting a quilt and those whose names are inscribed on it. Reflecting on living with disease and on mortality, Jarman concludes, "For blue, there are no boundaries or solutions...
...Philadelphia is just one panel, not the entire quilt," says John Gallagher, San Francisco correspondent for the Advocate, the nation's oldest gay magazine. "But as a primer for people who are new to the issue, it is pretty effective." Tony Kushner, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning play Angels in America, believes the film has strong lessons for the straight majority. "It tells them, If you are going to be a decent human being, you can't just casually despise a huge segment of the human race. And if you are going to address AIDS, you are going...
While an "afternoon tea" sign on her door greets visitors to the room, a collection of teapots lines a shelf above the window and tea cups are printed on the quilt she made...
Fogg Art Museum. Through Dec. 5. The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display in the Museum Courtyard...
...AIDS Institute also presented its Second Annual AIDS Leadership Award on Tuesday to Cleve Jones, founder of The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, portions of which are on display at the Fogg Art Museum this week...