Keiko Lane reflects on the artwork of her friend Cory Roberts-Auli (1963–1996), whose collaborative paintings often used blood as an artistic medium. One of these haunting works is featured on the cover of Lane's memoir Blood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art, out this week from Duke University Press.

On October 19, 2023, Theodore Kerr, Leah Sweet, and Nicholas Martin hosted a long table discussion about Juan González’s 1987 installation 'Don’t Mourn Consecrate.' Installed in the storefront windows of the Grey Art Gallery, 'Don’t Mourn' was one of the first public artworks to engage with the AIDS crisis in the US. This transcript documents the discussion, including remarks from six invited presenters as well as audience responses.

Matteo Pfahler reflects on Pandemics + Books: Publishing HIV/AIDS in the Early COVID Era, an online event from October 2023 that invited authors of HIV-related books with early COVID publication dates to come together and discuss their work, the power of history, and pandemic grief.

Theodore Kerr interviews designer Anthony Pellino about Public Garden, 16 Commerce Street, a park proposal he created as a student at The New School in 1983 that was designed to serve, in part, as an AIDS memorial—currently the earliest known plan for an AIDS memorial in the world.