Announcements

In Memoriam: Geoffrey Hendricks

Memories and tributes for Visual AIDS' Board Member and friend Geoffrey Hendricks (1931-2018) → Read More

Visual AIDS in “Lost & Found: Safer Sex Activism” at ONE Gallery

The exhibition features Visual AIDS' ​Play Smart Trading Cards and several works from our ​Broadsides series. → Read More

Malik Gaines on Lyle Ashton Harris: “A dashing artist, full of energy, legendary.”

Malik Gaines discusses Visual AIDS Vanguard honoree Lyle Ashton Harris' creative practice and liveliness. → Read More

Barbara Hunt McLanahan on Steed Taylor: “Steed demonstrates a rare sensitivity”

Barbara Hunt McLanahan discusses Visual AIDS Vanguard honoree Steed Taylor's art and his longstanding support of Visual AIDS. → Read More

Rajendra Roy on Thomas Allen Harris: “Thomas is one of our great visual historians.”

Rajendra Roy discusses Visual AIDS Vanguard honoree Thomas Allen Harris' work as an artist and visual historian. → Read More

A Poetics of Being: Mykki Blanco’s STONES AND WATER WEIGHT

Uri McMillan responds to Mykki Blanco's video for ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS: "Stage kid, art school dropout, self-professed art freak, riot-girl, punk poet, indie rapper, cross-dresser poet extraordinaire: all of these audacious avatars adhere to and yet fail to fully capture the polyglot persona that is model-artist-performer-poet-rapper Mykki Blanco." → Read More

Lucas Michael: Black in Three Colors

Curator Adam Barbu reflects on work by Artist+ Member Lucas Michael: "Three absent colors enact a deferral of self-image and self-knowledge—a deferral of what we have been taught about who we are. In a world of cultural assimilation and outright erasure, this deferral is the performance of a wish to remain outside, divergent, and queer. Deferral is grace." → Read More

Bittersweet Kinetic

Will Rawls responds to Kia LaBeija's video for ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS: "LaBeija’s film subtly urges us to witness the tricks of time on our perception, of timing on our creation of meaning. It’s a deft, dancing study of association, apposition and time-as-material." → Read More

Linda Villarosa on “About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer”

Linda Villarosa responds to Thomas Allen Harris' video for ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS: "The stories of black gay men, both the tragedy and the triumph, deserve to be heard. They help show, as Harris says, 'that our lives are worth saving and fighting for.'” → Read More

“100 Boyfriends Mixtape (The Demo)” has #nofilter

Kenyon Farrow responds to Brontez Purnell's video for ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS: "In the age of self-making through social media, '100 Boyfriends Mixtape (The Demo)' is a refreshing look at what it means to be a Black queer man now—#nofilter." → Read More