Visual AIDS is proud to announce that the Tate Modern, The Museum of Art & Design, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Museum, El Museo de Barrio, Grey Art Gallery at NYU, CCS Gallery at Bard College, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, and The LGBT Center of NYC, among others, will mark 20 years of action and remembrance of Day With(out) Art by screening Last Address on December 1, 2010.

Keith Haring, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joe Brainard, David Wojnarowicz, Hugh Steers, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, Klaus Nomi….the list of New York artists who died of AIDS over the last several decades is countless, and the loss immeasurable. Last Address, by filmmaker Ira Sachs, uses images of the exteriors of the houses, apartment buildings, and lofts where these and others were living at the time of their deaths to mark the disappearance of a generation. The film is a remembrance of that loss, as well as an evocation of the continued presence of these artists work in our lives and culture. Last Address running time is 8 min 36 sec., and is available for screening on DVD, HD, or Digi-beta. It can be projected or screened on a monitor. You can preview Last Address at www.lastaddress.org

Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness through producing and presenting visual art projects, while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement. Visual AIDS launched Day With(out) Art as a World AIDS Day initiative in 1988 to mourn those we have lost and to promote a broader awareness of the crisis. As the AIDS crisis and our understanding of it evolve, so must our actions. Visual AIDS continues to produce thought-provoking exhibitions, events and artist editions promoting HIV preventions and AIDS Awareness. www.visualAIDS.org

Ira Sachs is a filmmaker whose work includes the features Married Life (2007), The Delta (1997), and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning Forty Shades of Blue (2005. A recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1999, Sachs teaches in the MFA Film programs at both Columbia and NYU, a creative advisor at the Sundance Directors Lab, and a fellow at both the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He is the founder and co-curator of Queer/Art/Film, a monthly series held at the IFC Center in New York. For more information, visit queerartfilm.com

If you are interested in screening Last Address for Day With(out) Art/World AIDS Day, please contact Visual AIDS by Friday November 19, 2010. Last Address is available for free to screen on Day With(out) Art /World AIDS Day. The Last Address DVD also comes with bio information for each artist that can be use for public programming and educational material.

Please contact Nelson Santos or Amy Sadao at Visual AIDS with any questions 212-627-9855 / info [at] visualAIDS.org