AIDS - Arts Bibliography EXPLANATORY NOTE: This (incomplete) bibliography is a work in progress. It currently focuses primarily on the visual arts, including photography, video, architecture and design. We hope its publication will help guide us not only toward a more complete compilation, but toward similar resources in the performing arts. Please contact Artery with any leads or bibliographies. AIDS AND THE ARTS "AIA and AIDS," Oculus 53 (Sept. 1991): 12. Report on symposium on "Evolving Models for AIDS Facilities" sponsored by NYC/AIA Health Facilities Committee. "AIA and AIDS," Oculus 54 (Sept. 1991): 13. Summarizes a panel discussion on "Evolving Models for AIDS Facilities" sponsored by NYC/AIA Health Facilities Committee. "AIDS Relief," Interior Design 62 (August 1991): 38. Explains how the quality of interior design in health-care facilities for people with AIDS can "buoy the spirits of patients and staff alike." "The AIDS Timeline," Afterimage 16:16 (Dec. 1990). Review of exhibit by Group Material at Whitney Museum documenting government and media response to AIDS. AIDS: The Artist's Response, exh cat, University Gallery, Ohio State University, 1989. Organized by Jan Zita Grover with essays by Robert Atkins, John Greyson, Jan Zita-Grover among others. "The AIDS Crisis is Not Over," Art & Text 38, January, 1991. Arcidi, Philip, "AIDS Life Center in San Francisco," Progressive Architecture 72 (February 1991): pg. 20. Describes the design by architect Yoichiro Hakomori. Arcidi, Philip, "Housing for People with AIDS." Progressive Architecture 73 (Nov. 1992): pg. 99-102. Art against AIDS, exhibition catalog, Christie's, New York, 1987. Sale catalogue of benefit for American Foundation for AIDS Research. Art and AIDS 1990, exhibit catalog, Ventura College Press, Ventura, CA, 1990. Work by Jeffery Byrd, others. Art & Text 48, May 1994. (Felix Gonzales-Torres and others.) "Art & Crisis; Aids and the Gay Politic," High Performance 36, 1986. Art Against AIDS, San Francisco, exh. cat., American Foundation for AIDS Research, New York, 1989. "Art, AIDS, & The New Altruism," New Art Examiner, Vol. 18, No. 9, May 1991. "Arts' Communities/AIDS' Communities: Realizing The Archive Project," Exh. Cat., Visual AIDS/The Archive Projects, Visual AIDS for the Arts, 1996. Atkins, Robert. Art Against AIDS Washington DC. Exh. cat., New York, American Foundation for AIDS Research, 1990. Atkins, Robert. "Black Thursday: Frohnmayer fiddles, artists burn." Village Voice (Nov 28, 1989), p 31-33. Account of NEA censoring of AIDS exhibition, "Witnesses Against Our Vanishing," New York, Artists Space. Atkins, Robert. "Censor Sensibility" Village Voice (Dec.20, 1988): 116. ACT UP zap of Nicholas Nixon exhibition at Museum of Modern Art. Atkins, Robert. "A Day Without Art." ARTS (May 1990): 62065. Atkins, Robert. "Dui Seid: The body and the body politic." Essay in exh. cat., Tokyo: Sagacho Exhibition Space, 1992. Ten years of AIDS sculpture and installations. Atkins, Robert. "In Grief and Anger: Photographing people with AIDS." Aperture 114 (Spring 1989): 70-72. Atkins, Robert. "In Mourning and Anger: Art about AIDS." Arena (Spain; Dec. 1989), 10-17. Atkins, Robert. "The Look." Village Voice (Oct. 11, 1987). NAMES Project AIDS quilt premieres in Washington, D.C. Atkins, Robert. "Moving Pictures." Village Voice (Dec 24, 1991): 84-85. Review of Nicholas and Bebe Nixon's Bearing Witness: People With AIDS. Atkins, Robert. "Photographing AIDS: Difficult Subject.." Village Voice (June 28, 1988), 116-17. Illustrated feature. Atkins, Robert. "Visual AIDS" Essay in Disrupted Borders, exh. cat., Bristol, Arnolfini Gallery, 1993, London, Rivers Oram Press, 1993. Atkins, Robert and Thomas Sokolowski, From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, exh. cat., New York, Independent Curators, Inc., 1991. Traveling show (9 museums, Montreal, New York City etc, 1991-94) with work by 35 artists including Kathe Burkhart, Ross Bleckner, Gran Fury, Felix Gonalez-Torres, Robert Mapplethorpe, Donald Moffett. Frank Moore, Ellen Neipris Auction for Action, exh. cat., New York, ACT UP, 1990. Sale catalog of fundraising benefit, with works donated by numerous artists and groups. "Beacon for the Future: A derelict school has been turned into Britain's first residential centre for AIDS sufferers." Building Design (August 1989, supplement): 22-25. "Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of AIDS," Exhibit Pamphlet, Washington project for the Arts, Washington DC, 1993. Bissett, Mary, "Architecture, AIDS, Information, Opportunity", Architronic: The Electronic Journal of Architecture. 2:1 (1993): n.p. Proposes a new model for educating architects to better meet needs of clients and building-users with AIDS. Blanchon, Robert , lalala lalalala lalalalalalala, exh. cat., Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, 1996, Bleckner, Ross, exh. cat, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1995. Blinderman, Barry, David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame, exh. cat., Normal, IL, Illinois State University, 1990 and 1992. Originally accompanied a traveling exhibition, also seen in Philadelphia, Tyler School of Art. Bodow, Steven, "Design for AIDS Care." Architecture, the AIA Journal, 80 (July 1991), p. 73. Reports on a panel discussion on "Evolving Models for AIDS Facilities" held in New York City by the NYC/AIA, and illustrates a proposal by Perkins & Will/Davis, Brody & Associates for converting a disused public school into a 241-bed AIDS facility. Boffin, Tessa and Sunil Gupta, eds. Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology, London, Unin Hyman/Rivers Oran Press, 1990. Cameron, Dan, "Life During Wartime", ARTS 61:10 (1987), p. 40-41. Arts and Aids. Canty, Donald, "Art and Comfort in Seattle AIDS Care Facility," Progressive Architecture, 73 (March 1992), p. 22. Desribes what is termed "the first residential care facility designed and built specifically for AIDS victims in the nation." Chicano/Latino Art: Images in the Age of AIDS, exh. cat., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1992. "Cocktail Hour: Examining New Imagery in the AIDS Era," Camerawork, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1998. Cortez, Diego, "AIDS: The advent of the infinite divine spirit", Flash Art (Italy) 129 (1986), p. 58-61. Interview with artists David McDermott and Peter McGough. "Creating in Crisis: Making Art in the Age of AIDS." exh. cat,, Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio, 1994. Crimp, Douglas, ed., AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism, MIT Press/An October Book, Cambridge, MA, 1987. Also published as October Magazine 43 (Winter 1987). Numerous essays on the politics of AIDS representation in photography, mass media. Crimp, Douglas, "Issues and Commentary II: The Boys in My Bedroom." Art In America 78 (Feb. 1990), p. 47ff. Arguing that AIDS activists have transformed the strategy of appropriation. Crimp, Douglass with Adam Rolston, AIDS Demo Graphics, Bay Press, Seattle, 1990. Agit-prop art and graphics related to ACT-UP. Dana, Amy, "Designing a Cure," Interiors 150 (August 1991), p. 95. Describes the design for the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center for the City of New York, by architects Lord Aeck Sargent. Danzig, Alexis, "Acting Up: Independent video and the AIDS crisis," Afterimage (May 1989). Use and misuse of images of PWA's in the Media. Davidsen, Judith. "AIDS Hospice." Interior Design 61 (March 1990), p. 204-205. Describes the design of Boston's Hospice at Mission Hill. Denson, Roger G., "Model Morality: General Idea Face the Endangerment of the Species," Artscribe International 82 (summer 1990), p. 18-19. Jimmy DeSana, A.R.T. Press, Art Resource Transfer, Los Angeles, 1990. "Design for AIDS Care," Architecture the AIA Journal 80 (july 1991), p. 73. Reports on a panel discussion held in Neww York City on "Evolving Models for AIDS Facilities." "Design for Living," American Craft 51 (June-July 1991), p. 8. Documents the creation of a patient-visitor lounge for AIDS ward at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York, as a pro bono project supported by numerous interior designers and suppliers. "Design Industry Rallies for AIDS-fighting Group," Contract 30 (December 1988), p. 18. Describes the renovation of a building to house the activities of the Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City. Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, exh. cat., National Gallery of Australia, 1994. Large group exhibition. Ethik und asthetic im zaitalter von AIDS, exh. cat, (Nayland Blake, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Donald Moffett, Kiki Smith, David Wojnarowicz, Fierce Pussy, Andres Serrano, and others), Kunstverein, Hamburg and Kunstmuseum, Luzern, 1992. Farber, Robert, "I thought I had time", exh. cat., Artists Space, New York, 1992. Farnsworth, Alexander, "AIDS and Architecture," Metropolis 10 (December 1990), p. 21-23. Describes the functional and formal requirements of hospices for people with AIDS in New York City. Felix Gonzales-Torres, Art Resources Transfer, New York, 1993. Felix Gonzales-Torres, exh. cat. by Nancy Spector, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1995. Felix Gonzales-Torres & Donald Moffett: Strange Ways Here We Come, exh. cat., University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery "For Aids," Together to Tomorrow, Vol. 1, Spring 1993. "Frontis," RIBA Journal 95 (December 1988), p 5. Illustrates the Lancaster Road AIDS hospice in London. Gever, Martha, "Pictures of Sickness: Stuart Marshall's Bright Eyes." October 34 (1987), 108-26. Video art about AIDS and mass media. Grover, Jan Zita, "Visible Lesions: Images of People with AIDS" Afterimage 17:1 (1991). Hellman, Louis, "First AIDS" Architects' Journal 186 (September 23, 1987), 24-25. Critiques and design for the UK's first AIDS hospices, in Lancaster Road, London, finding it unnecessarily monumental. Howard, Billy, Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images in the Time of AIDS, Souther Methodist University Press, Texas, 1989. The Indomitable Spirit, exh. cat., International Center for Photography, NY; Photographers and Friends Against AIDS; Abrams, New York, 1990. "In Honoring a Friend, An Auction of Art Items also Benefits AIDS" New York Times (March 3, 1991), L 54. Benefit for Gay Men's Health Crisis. Images Against Aids: images pour la lutte contre le SIDA, exh. cat. at Centre Pompidou, Artis, Paris, 1994 The Interrupted Life, exh. cat, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1991. Kessler, Mark and Katherine Lambert, FACE: Tenederloin AIDS Resource Center, FACE, San Francisco, 1991. Artist's book documenting the remodeling of a San Francisco clinic into AIDS center by FACE architects. Lebowitz, Fran, "The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community" New York Times (September 13, 1987), H 22. Lieberman, Betsy and Donald Chamberlain, Breaking New Ground: Developing innovative AIDS care residences, AIDS Housing of Washington, Seattle, 1993. Extensive guidance on design of facilities to house people with AIDS. Lippard, Lucy R., "Out of the Safety Zone," (about David Wojnarowicz), Art in America, December 1990. Living with AIDS and HIV Exhibition, exh. cat., Laforet Museum Harajuku, Japan, 1994. Martin Wong, exh. cat., Exit Art, New York, 1998. Masami Teraoka, Exh. Cat, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, 1990. Masters, Kim, "NEW Opens Doors to Talk on Art and AIDS" Washington Post (March 9, 1991), D1. Maxwell, Marc A., "Housing People with AIDS, Raising the Rood, Opening Doors" American Institute of Architects Memo (June 1992), p. 3. Discusses Boston-based initiatives intended to increase architects' awareness of the need for, and design requirements of housing for people with AIDS. Maves, Carl, "A Mosaic in Memoriam: San Francisco Names Project stitches together gigantic quilt for March on Washington" The Advocate (October 13, 1987), 51-53. Early history of the NAMES Project Quilt. Miller, James, ed. Fluid Exchanges: Artists and Critics in the AIDS Crisis. Univ. of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1992. Meyer, James, "Aids and Postmodernism," Arts Magazine, April 1992. Nixon, Nicholas and Bebe Nixon, People With AIDS. Godine, Boston, 1991. Serial photos with text. The Object as Art: A Benefit for Gay Men's Health Crisis, exh. cat., Sotheby's, New York, 1987. Decorative arts fundraiser, Feb, 1987. O'Neill, Sophie, "A Positive Approach," British Journal of Photography, no. 6644, vol. 134 (December 10, 1987), 1500-1501. Photojournalism on AIDS in US; John Cole. Pierson, Jack, All of a Sudden, PowerHouse Books and Thea Westreich, New York, 1995. Pruden, David E., and Nadine McGann, Picturing Aids: Art, Photography, Media, and AIDS, a Bibliography, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 1991. Useful annotated entries cover many out-of-the-way articles; citations not all complete. Quinn, Billy, A Plague of Angels, exh. cat. Mindy Oh Gallery, Chicago, 1993. Ray, Gypsy, Living With Aids: Collaborative portraits, Gallerie Publications, Vancouver, 1992. Photo portraits inscribed with texts written by each subject. Reid, Calvin. "Art and Politics-Beyond Mourning," Art in America 78 (April 1990), 51ff. Review of "Witnesses: Against our Vanishing," at Artists Space (NYC). Rist, Darrel Yates, "Fear and Loving and AIDS," Film Comment 22:2 (March, 1986), 44-50. Treatment of homosexuality and AIDS on television and film. Rosler, Martha "Homes for People with AIDS" in If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory and Social Action, , Bay Press, Seattle, 1991, pp. 230-233. Includes the design by Gustavo Binevardi, Lee Ledbetter and others for a housing facility in New York. Ruskin, Cindy, The Quilt: Stories from the NAMES Project, Simon and Schuster/Pocket Books, New York, 1988. Extensive documentation of the memorial quilt. Photography by Matt Herron. Sachner, Paul M., "A Place of Passage," Architectural Record 176 (November 1988), 104-107. Describes the renovation of an existing convent as an AIDS hospice in San Francisco's largest gay neighborhood. Saslow, James M., "Art Against AIDS: New York art world reacts to health crisis with tidal wave of conscience," The Advocate (March 29, 1988), 36ff. Saslow, James H., The Advocate, (Nov. 21, 1988), p. 72-73. Review of essay collection, AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism. Seeing Red White or Blue-Censored in the USA, exh. cat., Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, 1992. 50 artists whose work has been censored, many because of AIDS- or gay/lesbian-related imagery. Sharbutt, Jay, "Group Hits Reporting on AIDS," Los Angeles Times (October 4, 1985), 1. Media activism by Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists in Los Angeles. Shortal, Hellen, "Gallery: Bodily Fluids; School 33 Deconstructs the Birds and the Bees," City Paper, Baltimore, March 6, 1992, page 22. Slatin, Peter D., "New Housing for AIDS Patients Stresses Privacy," Architectural Record, 179 (November 1991), 27. Illustrates a design by Grinstein/Daniels for a facility in San Pedro, California. Solomon, Rosalind, Portraits in the Time of AIDS, exh. cat., Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 1988. Stubbs, Stephanie, "Designing Housing for People with AIDS: Meet the Challenge," American Institute of Architects Memo (May 1992), 26. Educational initiatives to increase architects' awareness of the need for sensitively designed housing for people with AIDS. The Subject Is AIDS," exh. cat., Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 1989. "Taking it to the Street: Public Art and AIDS," Public Art Issues, Spring 1992. "The Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center," Progressive Architecture 73 (May 1992), 136-7. Describes a counseling and resource center design by Katherine Lambert and Mark Kessler of FACE. Tetlow, Karin, "Designing for AIDS," Architecture the AIA Journal 81 (March 1992), 85-92. Outlines design requirements for AIDS-care facilities and illustrates several examples of completed ones. Tischler, Linda Hayes, "Design as Healer: Boston AIDS Hospice," Metropolitan Home 22 (September 1990), 62. Treichler, Paula, "Seduced and Terrorized: AIDS and Network Television," Artforum (October 1989), 147-51. Tryer, Dot, "The revolver: The embattled body-AIDS and the current crisis of representation." Canadian Art 6:2 (19189), 23-24. Posters, needlework, and other art forms. Vaucher, Andrea R, Muses from Chaos and Ash: AIDS, Artists and Art, Grove Press, New York, 1993. Interviews with visual and performing artists on impact of AIDS. Watney, Simon, "The French Connection," Sight and Sound 3:6 (June 1993), 24-25. Cyrol Conrad, who died of AIDS, directed "Les nuit fauves," film with themes of AIDS, passion, French culture. Watney, Simon, "Photography and AIDS," in The Critical Image, ed. Carol Squire, Bay Press, Seattle, 1990. Revised version of an essay that first appeared in British periodical Ten, 8, 1987. Discusses how pictures of AIDS tell more about the institutions that produce them than about the disease. Webb, Patrick, Punchinello Paintings, exh. cat., Amos Eno Gallery, New York, 1992. Weil, Brian, Every 17 Seconds; A Global Perspective on the AIDS Crisis. (Intro. by Simon Watney), Aperture, New York, 1992. Weinberg, Jonathan, "The Quilt: Activism and remembrance," Art in America (December 1992) 37-39. White, Edmund, "Aesthetics and Loss," Artforum 25:5 (January, 1987), 68-71. White, Edmund, "The Artist and AIDS," Harper's 274 no. 1614 (May 1987), 22-25. Personal reminiscence and analysis of the impact of AIDS, gay and arts communities. Willis, Alfred, "Architecture for the AIDS Crisis: a bibliography," Architronic: The Electronic Journal of Architecture 2:1 (1993), n.p. Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, exh. cat., New York: Artists Space Gallery, 1989. Group show curated by Nan Goldin, of artists living in New York. Essay by David Wojnarowicz. "David Wojnarowicz, Brush Fires in the Social Landscape," Aperture No. 137, Fall 1994. Wojnarowicz, David, Close to the Knives: A memoir of disintegration, Vintage Books, New York, 1991. Memoirs of a brilliant artist with AIDS (1955-92), frankly considers his own experience of abuse, prostitution, and street life. Wojnarowicz, David, Memoirs that Smell Like Gasoline, Artspace Books, San Francisco, 1992. Second, posthumous volume of recollections and essays with illustrations by the artist. Zenil, Nahum B., Witness to the Self, exh. cat., The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, 1996