Aids

Artists and exhibitions address the AIDS crisis.

 A novel about queer rage, the 1990s club scene, and the intricacies of healing. 

The novelist on the enduring AIDS crisis, the resonance of the Lost Generation, and writing her way around questions.

An ecumenical, eccentric, ecstatic, illegible, undigestable stew.

A look back at the AIDS crisis.

Reza Abdoh, the first large-scale retrospective of the late Iranian-American theater director’s work, is on view through September 3 at MoMA PS1. The comprehensive exhibition was co-organized by Bidoun’s Negar Azimi, Tiffany Malakooti, and Babak Radboy alongside MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach.

It is both a memoir of Lindon’s literary friendships and a treatise on survival, a tribute to the friends whose care and love, in Lindon’s words, saved his life, even as they were themselves lost.

John Giorno’s influence as a cultural impresario, philanthropist, activist, hero, and éminence grise stretches so widely and across so many generations that one can almost forget that he is primarily a poet.

A selection curated by Marcia Bassett

AIDS in plain sight

“A kind of home museum, starting with the garage.”

So they invite you to Nueva York, all expenses paid, to participate in an event for Stonewall, twenty years after the police brawl starring the gay girls who, in 1964, took over a bar in the Village. 

Lyle Ashton Harris’s work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic.

Bond keeps expanding a performative repertoire that’s equally personal and political. On the occasion of V’s gallery exhibit in London, Episalla queries the self-designated “trans-genre artist.”

Late one night in the summer of 2002 or 2003, I was in Berlin, having just returned after six months in Paris. Friends told me of a woman I just had to meet, a bartender at Barbie Deinhoff’s. 

Portuguese cinema, dealing with illness, and “the tissue connecting the cosmic and the corporeal.”

Ciphers, graffiti hieroglyphs, and lateral communication.

Jason Simon’s show at Callicoon Fine Arts last fall evoked multiplied specters of the artist’s memory.