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1:00pm – 1:30pm

Gallery Talk

ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993

Gallery Talk

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts @ 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Helen Molesworth, exhibition co-curator and Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum

This talk will explore posters, stickers, and public art projects made by art collectives that emerged out of New York’s AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Powerful graphics helped transform entrenched ideas about sexuality and played an enormous role in changing legal policy and medical practice.

Free admission.
Gallery talks are informal and include discussion.
Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor.

For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu.

The above program is presented in conjunction with ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993, an exhibition of politically charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that emerged during a pivotal moment of AIDS activism in New York City. Organized by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Harvard Art Museum. On view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 15–December 23, 2009.