On World AIDS Day, December 1, 1998, the Virtual Collection was launched at the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. The resulting publicity, including a major piece in The New York Times, yielded exactly the results we had hoped forartists, curators and historians from around the world have begun to use the Virtual Collection as a research tool for examining the AIDS crisis.   On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2001, Recovering the Positive: Originals opened at the Parsons School of Design. Organized by the Estate Project and guest curated by Chris Packard, the exhibition consisted of work by artists represented in the Virtual Collection. From the powerful visual statements of early AIDS activism to contemporary public service announcements aimed at a new generation at risk of infection, the work in Recovering the Positive: Originals tends to quiver at the border of art and politicsthat precarious position where art becomes something else and where the immeasurable (the loss and tragedy of AIDS) begins to find representation. Click here for a slideshow of selected work from the exhibition and the catalog essay.