Impersonating the dead can be risky work. This year, Ira Sachs' 'Peter Hujar's Day' and Morgan Bassichis' 'Can I Be Frank?' each used reenactment to animate two artists lost to AIDS. Sachs and Bassichis join Kyle Croft, Executive Director at Visual AIDS, for a conversation about the stakes and motivations behind their work.

Research Fellow Isabella Marie Garcia brings together the stories of two Cuban artists, Carlos Alfonzo and Fernando Garcia, focusing on how their work reflected the experience of being Cuban immigrants and grappling with a variety of political and social forces working against them.

Research Fellow Timothy E. Bradley explores the work of Frank Green (1957–2013), a performance and installation artist who worked in New York and Ohio. Bradley focuses on The Scarlet Letters, a searing and iconoclastic performance that questioned medical knowledge about AIDS in the mid-1990s.

In 1989, Vittorio Scarpati (1953–1989) produced a suite of intricate and expressive drawings while hospitalized at Cabrini Medical Center. The drawings were exhibited the same year in exhibitions organized by his wife, Cookie Mueller, at 56 Bleecker Gallery and his friend, Nan Goldin, at Artists Space. Michele Bertolino reflects on the euphoric undercurrent that shines through Scarpati's work.