Highlighting current artists doing the work to create powerful works of art despite individual or societal upheaval. Looking to the past to reveal the artists that found a way to overcome their circumstances to make their mark. Celebrating and inviting a conversation about the ways that artists reveal the world and imagine a better future, no matter what.
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Highlighting current artists doing the work to create powerful works of art despite individual or societal upheaval. Looking to the past to reveal the artists that found a way to overcome their circumstances to make their mark. Celebrating and inviting a conversation about the ways that artists reveal the world and imagine a better future, no matter what.
Starving Art Ep. 9: Avram Finkelstein and Silence = Death
Starving Art Podcast: Making Art in Hard Times
37 minutes 19 seconds
4 years ago
Starving Art Ep. 9: Avram Finkelstein and Silence = Death
Listen in to hear how six gay men at the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic created the logo for an activist movement. Driven by their individual grief and anger, their creation took on multiple lives of its own, galvanizing a generation of queer people under attack from one of the worst epidemics of the 20th century.
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Sources:
After Silence: A History of AIDS Through its Images
Timeline and Stats
Larry Kramer Essay
Starving Art Podcast: Making Art in Hard Times
Highlighting current artists doing the work to create powerful works of art despite individual or societal upheaval. Looking to the past to reveal the artists that found a way to overcome their circumstances to make their mark. Celebrating and inviting a conversation about the ways that artists reveal the world and imagine a better future, no matter what.
