Gallery: A Sobering Look at How AIDS Changed Art in America
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Tino Rodriguez's *Eternal Lovers* (2010) is one of many pieces in the new exhibit *Art AIDS American* grappling with death during the AIDS crisis.
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Niki de Saint Phalle's *AIDS, you can’t catch it holding hands* (1987) is a parody of a children's book teaching kids about the disease.
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Joey Terrill's *Still Life with Forget-Me-Nots and One Week’s Dose of Truvada* (2012) is a post-cocktail-era piece. The cocktail is the newer medicine that extends the lives of those living with HIV.
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Andres Serrano's *Blood and Semen III*, 1990.
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David Wojnarowicz made *Untitled (Buffalo)* in 1988 while dying of AIDS. The photograph uses the 19th-century government-sponsored eradication of buffalo to symbolize the neglect of those living with AIDS.
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Thomas Haukaas's *More Time Expected* (2002) features some horses without riders, in honor of the Native Americans who died from the disease.
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Kia Labeija, *In My Room* (2014). The 26-year-old artist was born with HIV, which she contracted from her mother.
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Kia Labeija, *Mourning Sickness* (2014).
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Shimon Attie, *Untitled Memory (projection of Axel H.)* (1998).
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One of the most recognizable symbols from the AIDS crisis era is the pink triangle used by the activist group ACT UP for the 1990 documentary *SILENCE = DEATH*.
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Keith Haring's *Altar Piece* (1990) was the last work he made before dying of AIDS-related illness.
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Bill Jacobson, *Interim Portrait #373* (1992)
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Deborah Kass's *Still Here* (2007) is one of many pieces in the show that explores the experience of the survivor.
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Albert J. Winn, *Akedah* (1995).
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Robert Sherer's, *Sweet Williams* (2013) is painted in HIV negative and HIV positive blood on paper.
