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Canadian Artist and AIDS Activist Joe Average Dies, New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission Wants to Landmark Sotheby's New Building: Morning Links for January 6, 2025
The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. ANYTHING BUT AVERAGE. The Canadian artist and AIDS activist known as Joe Average has died aged 67 in his home in Vancouver, reports The Art Newspaper. Despite the name ...
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40 million lives later: The dangers of erasing AIDS from the works of art it inspired
The Smithsonian’s decision to change the name of a work by Félix González-Torres – cancelling out the express tribute to his ...
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Mel Bochner, Conceptual Artist Who Played With Language, Dies at 84
installations and public art, died on Feb. 12 in Manhattan. He was 84. His wife, Lizbeth Marano, said the cause of his death, in a hospital, was complications of a fall. In 1966, Mr. Bochner ...
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AIDS Memorial Quilt exhibit at SFO honors lives lost, raises awareness to ongoing epidemic
The AIDS Memorial Quilt has nearly 50,000 panels dedicated to more than 110,000 people who of died of AIDS-related illnesses. It is also the world's largest community art project.
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‘Full circle:’ Avenidas social worker reunites with quilt, telling her first love story
When Ramirez died in May 1992 of AIDS, Wolfson used her passion for art, photography and her relationship with Ramirez to make a quilt square, mapping out their story. The quilt square was first ...