The programs below are presented in conjunction with ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-Â-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. The exhibition also features the premiere of the ACT UP Oral History Project, a suite of over 100 video interviews with surviving members of ACT UP New York. Organized by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Harvard Art Museum.
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-Â-1993 is co-curated by Helen Molesworth, Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum; and Claire Grace, Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum and a PhD candidate in Harvard University’s History of Art and Architecture Department.
On view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 15Â- – December 23, 2009.
Main gallery (lobby) hours: Mon-Fri, 10am-11pm; Sat-Sun, 1Â-5pm
Sert Gallery (2nd floor) hours: Tue-Sun, 1Â-5pm
Exhibition info: www.harvardartmuseum.org/actup and www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/ACTUP.html
(information about the related Fierce Pussy artist residency and on-campus site-specific installations can also be found on the above websites.)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 6:00pm
Poetry Reading
Mark Doty, Eileen Myles, and an AIDS Poetic Retrospective
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Free admission. Open to the public.
617-495-9400
Event info: www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=25876
Mark Doty is the author of My Alexandria and winner of a 2008 National Book Award. Eileen Myles, hailed as «the rock star of modern poetry,» is the author of over 20 volumes of poetry, most recently Sorry, Tree. They will be joined by Harvard undergraduate poets reciting works by writersÂ-Tory Dent, Melvin Dixon, Thom Gunn, Tony Kushner, James Merrill, and othersÂ-whose words have compelled attention to the AIDS crisis.
Introduction by Christina Davis, curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room. Reception to follow at the Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Art Museum and Woodberry Poetry Room, Houghton Library.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 6:00pm
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
World AIDS Day Lecture: Seeing AIDS
Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Free admission. Open to the public.
Sackler Museum galleries will remain open until 6pm.
617-495-9400
Event info: www.harvardartmuseum.org/calendar/detail.dot?id=24491
Philip Yenawine, co-founding director, Visual Understanding in Education
Director of education at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1983 to 1993, Yenawine was engaged with activist artists. He will reflect on the impact of AIDS on the cultural sector, artists’ responses to the crisis, and December 1 as «A Day without Art.»
The above program is presented in conjunction with ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987Â-1993, an exhibition
