Robert Mapplethorpe: Artist
These Perfect Moments
A new documentary and two exhibitions shed new light on Robert Mapplethorpe, photography’s enfant terrible
by Larry Buhl
Outside of the art world and…
Cynthia Davis • Dolls of Hope: Artist
Dolls of Hope
Professor Cynthia Davis uses dolls to break the silence surrounding HIV and AIDS
by Alina Oswald
Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Sean Black
Sometimes…
Hugh Steers: Artist
Gorgeous Bleakness: Beauty in the Most Brutal Forms
American figurative painter Hugh Steers lures us back to a desperate time through his arresting, full-color imagery…
David Hilliard: Artist
Strong at the Broken Places
Photographer David Hilliard Draws on Personal History to Create Panoramas of Possibility
by Lester Strong
Glance at the photography of David Hilliard…
Joyce McDonald: Artist
Out of the Fire
Anointed, Inspired, Delivered & Saved, Artist Joyce McDonald Rewrites Longterm Survival
by Chael Needle
Photos by Alina Oswald
HIV is not the end. Having…
J. Tomás López: Artist
Dare Look
Capturing faces of AIDS, photographer J. Tómas López dares people to look the early pandemic in the eye
by Alina Oswald
It all started with…
Avram Finkelstein: Artist
Acting Up
Activist and Artist Avram Finkelstein Discusses Silence = Death, ACT UP, and Flash Collectives
by Alina Oswald
“Hi, I’m Avram,” the gentleman introduced himself, as…
Benjamin Fredrickson: Artist
The Beauty of It All
Photographer Benjamin Fredrickson uses his images and also his life story to help break down AIDS -related stigma
by Alina Oswald
"I…
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