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SUMMARY:Book Launch: AIDS\, Art & the Origins of the Culture War by Robert Atkins (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join Visual AIDS for a conversation with Visual AIDS co-founder Robert Atkins on the occasion of his new book\, AIDS\, Art & the Origins of the Culture War: Selected Writings of Robert Atkins. He will be joined by Sarah Schulman and Jackson Davidow to discuss the Culture War\, defined as a Christian Nationalist assault on the increasingly multicultural society and liberal ethos that emerged in the 1960s in the new form of attacks by Americans on other Americans. Media-savvy politicians and religious figures took advantage of relatively new and little-known groups–artists\, queers\, and people with AIDS. Despite their initial lack of support\, members of these groups soon applied their art and media practices to effectively oppose authoritarian inroads on the Constitution’s First-Amendment guarantees of free expression. “But\,” Atkins wonders\,” “have we already slid too far back from the future to avoid another full-scale medical crisis?” \nAIDS\, Art & the Origins of the Culture War presents three-and-a-half decades of articles and essays stemming from these contentious assaults on the rights of individuals\, institutions\, and\, by extension\, all Americans. A staff columnist for the Village Voice during the 1980s and 90s\, Atkins produced both eye-witness reporting and thoughtful analysis from 1987 and the debut of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington\, DC to the most recently published piece collected for the book\, his 2019 review of Benjamin Moser’s biography of Susan Sontag. The book also features When the Culture War Became the Culture\, his lengthy\, recently written cultural history of the past half century in the US against which the book’s narrative plays out. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of AIDS\, Art & the Origins of the Culture War  please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve AIDS\, Art & the Origins of the Culture War for March 1 event” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nThe Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD \n  \nRobert Atkins is a UC Berkeley-trained art historian\, journalist\, curator\, and educator. A former columnist for The Village Voice\, he has written for more than 100 publications worldwide. Among his many books is Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression\, published by the New Press. He has curated exhibitions in far-flung venues from Sao Paolo\, Brazil to New York and co-curated From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS\, the first international traveling exhibition of AIDS art. A pioneer of online art production and commentary\, he is a fellow of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and producer of Artery: the AIDS Arts Forum. He is also a founder of Visual AIDS\, the producers of Day With(out) Art and the Red Ribbon. \n  \nJackson Davidow is a writer\, curator\, and art historian. \n  \nSarah Schulman is a novelist\, playwright\, nonfiction writer\, screenwriter\, and AIDS historian. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/atkins/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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