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Absence/Presence: 30 Years of Day Without Art: 1989-2019

Absence/Presence: 30 Years of Day Without Art: 1989-2019

Croft, Kyle
Puleo, Risa
Atkins, Robert

Hardcover

General ArtIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $49.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 13, 2026

ISBN13: 9798988981749
Publisher: Visual Aids, New York
Published: Oct 13 2026
Pages: 304
Language: English

Commemorating Visual AIDS' three-decades-strong initiative to mobilize art institutions toward political acts of resistance

Published with [NAME] PUBLICATIONS.

This landmark volume resurfaces the history of Day Without Art, a day of action and mourning in response to the ongoing AIDS crisis, organized by Visual AIDS and observed by thousands of museums, universities and galleries since 1989. Conceived amid the culture wars of the late 1980s, Day Without Art marked a decisive shift in how art institutions understood their social and political responsibilities, calling on them to confront the AIDS crisis publicly. What began as a call for institutions to close or remove artworks--using absence to give presence to the losses of the AIDS crisis--quickly evolved into a networked platform for socially engaged art, ranging from posters and stickers to net art, public projections and national television broadcasts.

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