centerpieces
In Memoriam
Memorial Services: The Unbearable Meaning of Being
Dorothy Alison, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Bob Smith, Wickie Stamps et al plumb the sublimity and absurdity of these ritualized events.
SAWUBONA: A Report from the International AIDS Conference 2000
Veteran AIDS conference-goer Carole Leach-Lemens provides a guided tour of this year's tumultuous confab in Durban.
A Killing in Art
What happens to the prices of an artist's work after s/he dies? Judd Tully explains.
Stitches and Stones: AIDS Memorials
Jack Becker kicks off this in-progress data base of memorials built and unbuilt, public and private with a report from North America.
"Every Eleven Seconds"
What was an AIDS-death in the U.S. every ten minutes in 1991, is now an AIDS-death somewhere on the planet, every 11 seconds. Robert Farber's sound work "updated."
Provincetown Report
Summer on Cape Cod: Eileen Myles explains why this this idyllic resort is itself an AIDS memorial.
"Postcard From Grief"
Writer-director Craig Lucas lost his lover Timothy Scott Melester in 1995. Seven months later his rage hadn't abated.
"After Peter"
Alexander Chee remembers Peter David Kelloran and San Francisco in the early nineties.
An HIV/AIDS Classical Music Sampler
Classical music may be the most abstract art form, but Don Hulbert argues that AIDS has inspired important work. Another data base in the making.