NYC AIDS Memorial

LINK IN BIO! Clips from the third installment of REVIVAL: Survivors’ Stories are now up on our YouTube channel. Link in bio to listen to 15 incredible stories of Long-Term Survivors, their friends and caretakers, and others thriving in the world today, over four decades into the AIDS epidemic. Co-presented with @thegenerationsproject

Part two of a selection of images from our World AIDS Day observance and reading last week at the #nycaidsmemorial. Image description: 1) Attendees gather for the 30th annual Out of the Darkness (@outofthedarkness.ootd) candlelight vigil; 2) & 3) Attendees remember those lost to the epidemic during the vigil; 4) Words of Remembrance readers (from left to right) Ed Barron, Kineen MaFa, Patricia Shelton, Tim Murphy, Lillibeth Gonzalez, John Grauwiler, Ivy Kwan Arce, Jay W.... Walker, Bruce Ward, and Kevin Hertzog; 5) Pride Puppets (@pride_puppets) arrive to lead the procession to St. John’s Lutheran Church on Christopher Street. More images can be found on our website. courtesy @sargent.images

Part one of a selection of images from our World AIDS Day observance and reading on December 1st at the #nycaidsmemorial. Image description: 1) volunteers placing the 250 votives designed by @othoniel_studio; 2) Silence = Death; 3) NYC AIDS Memorial Board Member Eric Sawyer with Words of Remembrance participant and activist Ivy Kwan Arce; 4) Words of Remembrance participant and @gaysagainstgunsny co-founder John Grauwiler reading the words of David Frechette; 5) Words of Remembrance participant and artivist, spiritual guide and public speaker Kineen MaFa embracing curator @timmurphynycwriter. More images can be found on our website. courtesy of @sargent.images

Beautiful images of I Believe In Fairies - an installation of 250 hand-blown glass candle votives designed by Jean-Michel Othoniel (@othoniel_studio) for the #nycaidsmemorial for World AIDS Day. #jeanmichelothoniel

Our new project is launching tomorrow 12/1 #worldaidsday2020 at the New York City AIDS Memorial! - More info at www.nycaidsmemorial.org/hear-me

On World AIDS Day & our 4th anniversary - https://mailchi.mp/nycaidsmemorial/wad2020

Repost by @studioestudio NYC AIDS Memorial graphic design for @actofintuition @nycaidsmemorial @jennyholzerstudio #studioestudio #design #artdirection #conceptdevelopment #environmentaldesign #productdesign #interiordesign #productphotography #graphicdesign #nycaidsmemorial

With so much going on in the world, make A TIME TO LISTEN to artists, activists, and writers discuss the ongoing #NYC response to HIV/AIDS through audio and video archives. Episodes will drop every Tuesday and Thursday November 5-24 Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube page, too! Episode 1 is now live at www.atimetolisten.org featuring #AnnNorthrop and Kenyon Farrow on the topic of speeches. Check it out!

On this very consequential Election Day, please heed this 1988 reminder from the Silence = Death Project: EXERCISE YOUR ANGER AT THE POLLS need help? Go to: iwillvote.com. Your vote is a weapon... use it. #vote #vote2020 #silenceequalsdeath

What a joy it was to honor the life and spirit of John Giorno this evening with a reading from his new memoir #greatdemonkings at the #nycaidsmemorial. Many thanks to the @giornofoundation @karmabookstore @brooklynrail and @fsgbooks for collaborating on such a great and socially distanced event. #johngiorno

Repost from the @giornofoundation: Join us this Thursday for the livestream kickoff event and celebration in collaboration with our friends at @karmabookstore @fsgbooks @nycaidsmemorial @brooklynrail #johngiorno #greatdemonkings

On Wednesday, @jennyholzerstudio sent a mobile intervention throughout the city to honor those lost to AIDS, celebrate activists and caretakers, build awareness, and launch our now sold out collaboration with @avant.arte. Here we are in a very empty Times Square, reminding you we can create our own futures. . @joe_carrotta 2020, Jenny Holzer, Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY #jennyholzer #future #timessquare

Yesterday at the New York City AIDS Memorial as part of our collaboration with @avant.arte and @jennyholzerstudio. The truck made its way from Brooklyn, through the Village to Times Square - did you catch it? Photo: @joe_carrotta Jenny Holzer, member, Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY #nycaidsmemorial #nyc #aidsmemorial #jennyholzer #waltwhitman #urgeandurgeandurge

Pace Gallery presents an online panel discussion on the life and work of pioneering photographer Peter Hujar (1934-1987). The panel will take pace July 15 at 1PM on Zoom. The panel discussion coincides with the exhibition Peter Hujar: Cruising Utopia, which explores Hujar’s intimate photographs of queer culture in New York from the late 1960s until the early 1980sthe era following Stonewall but before the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. The exhibition juxtaposes iconic studio... portraits of friends, lovers, and acquaintances, many of them fixtures of the downtown scene, with images that allude to the culture of cruising for sex in Manhattan’s crumbling West Side piers during the 1970s. This online panel brings together a group of distinguished participants to address Hujar’s work and its impact on later generations of artists, with a particular focus on questions of intimacy, desire, kinship, and community at the intersection of photography, performance, and queer culture. The panel includes artists Nayland Blake, Every Ocean Hughes (f.k.a. Emily Roysdon), Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and art historian Abigail Solomon-Godeau, who will be joined in conversation by writer Stephen Koch, a close friend of Hujar’s and Director of The Peter Hujar Archive. The conversation will be moderated by Oliver Shultz, Curatorial Director at Pace Gallery. Sign up here: https://www.pacegallery.com//cruising-utopia-conversation/ Photo: Peter Hujar, "Christopher Street Pier #4," 1976, vintage gelatin silver print, 14-3/4" 14-5/8" (37.5 cm 37.1 cm), image, 20" 16" (50.8 cm 40.6 cm), paper The Peter Hujar Archive

"NO DAY UNLESS I'M PART OF IT" - with readers Atom Atkinson, Chen Chen, Miguel Gutierrez, Shiv Kotecha, Francisco Márquez, Eileen Myles, Ron Padgett, Ethan Philbrick, Xandria Phillips, Jayson P. Smith, Kiki Smith, and Pamela Sneed and featuring the work of John Bernd, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Joe Brainard, Justin Chin, Tory Dent, Melvin Dixon, Tim Dlugos, Essex Hemphill, Cookie Mueller, Arthur Russell, Assotto Saint, and David Wojnarowicz. This was originally presented live on June 30 with The Poetry Project

For those who missed last night's live broadcast of "No Day Unless I'm Part Of It" - presented with The Poetry Project and featuring work by 12 artists and poets lost to AIDS including Melvin Dixon, David Wojnarowicz, Cookie Mueller, and Arthur Russell, you can watch the broadcast here: https://my.demio.com/recording/uEwnAZZQ

Head to New York Magazine for a preview of our online exhibition "Peter Hujar: Cruising Utopia," opening tomorrow, June 30, at 10 AM EDT. In honor of #Pride, 10% of all sales from the exhibition will be donated to the NYC AIDS Memorial.

Reminder: Virtual poetry reading for #pride, tomorrow 6/30 at 7PM with The Poetry Project! Link to RSVP: https://my.demio.com/ref/zV5FHpqTRcGoFa15 In the midst of both new and continuing crises, protests, reckoning, and uncertainty, we turn this year to the work of these and other poets and artists who have died of AIDS-related illness for an online Pride broadcast presented by the New York City AIDS Memorial and The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s. Chen Chen, Miguel Gutierrez, ...Shiv Kotecha, Francisco Márquez, Eileen Myles, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Ethan Philbrick, Xandria Phillips, Jayson P. Smith, Kiki Smith, Pamela Sneed, and others to be announced will share performances and readings spotlighting the work of John Bernd, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Joe Brainard, Justin Chin, Tory Dent, Melvin Dixon, Tim Dlugos, Essex Hemphill, Cookie Mueller, Arthur Russell, Assotto Saint, David Wojnarowicz, and more. See more

Let Equality Bloom at the New York City AIDS Memorial for #pride - huge thanks to Floratorium, Pic and Petal, and Sophie Parker (WIFE NYC) for creating this incredible installation!

Today, June 14, is World Blood Donor Day and in the United States, and many parts of the world, there are still discriminatory policies facing the LGBTQ+ related to blood donation and larger health and equality issues. In support of a new project launched this Pride month by @jordaneagles, Can You Save Superman?, curated by @ericshiner and presented by @leslielohmanmuseum with @visual_aids @gmhc @blood_equality @lgbtcenternyc @nyc_hpg @aeivauab alongside the #nycaidsmemorial,... we interviewed Memorial Board Member, Housing Works co-founder and renowned activist @ericsawyernyc on the importance of fighting this ban, how it’s impacted his life and work, and superheroes. Link in bio for the interview and more information on the exhibition. . . #worldblooddonorday #bloodequality #sciencenotstigma #superman #canyousavesuperman #blooddonation #blooddonor #pride #gaypride #lgbtq #hiv #aids See more

Many people know Larry Kramer as a troublemaker, a fierce activist who took no prisoners, who was quick to call drug companies profiteering murderers and quick to accuse politicians of genocide against gay and trans people as well as against people living with HIV/AIDS. What many don’t know is that Larry was also an incredibly sweet man who loved gay people, and was a terrific friend. The world lost a fearless activist against homophobia, inequality, and for the end of AIDS!... I, however, lost a terrific, loving friend. - Eric Sawyer, ACT UP Founding Member & New York City AIDS Memorial Board of Directors #thankyoularry #larrykramer #actup #fightaids #ericsawyer