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    World AIDS Day Lecture: Seeing AIDS

    World AIDS Day Lecture: Seeing AIDS

    Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum

    December 1, 2009

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    Lecture by Philip Yenawine, co-founding director, Visual Understanding in Education

    Director of education at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1983 to 1993, Yenawine was engaged with activist artists. He will reflect on the impact of AIDS on the cultural sector, artists' responses to the crisis, and December 1 as "A Day without Art."

    Free admission.
    Sackler galleriers will remain open until 6pm.

    For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu.

    The above program is presented in conjunction with ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993, an exhibition of over 70 politically-charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that emerged during a pivotal moment of AIDS activism in New York City. Organized by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Harvard Art Museum. On view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 15–December 23, 2009.

    The M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.


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        Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum

        485 Broadway
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        Tickets: Free admission.

        Info Phone: 617-496-8576

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        Dates:
        December 1, 2009

        Times:
        6:00 - 7:00 pm

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