Patrick O’Connell at household in New York in 1994 Photo: Thomas McGovern / Getty Pictures Patrick O’Connell, the founding director of the organisation Visual Aids, which considering that the late 1980s has applied the arts to raise consciousness about HIV and Aisa and to aid artists residing with the condition, […]
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Patrick O’Connell, 67, Dies Lifted Recognition of AIDS With Art
Patrick O’Connell, who as the founding director of Visual AIDS, an advocacy team that supports artists dwelling with the disease, assisted shatter the stigma surrounding AIDS in the 1990s with recognition campaigns which include the ubiquitous purple ribbon, died on March 23 at a clinic in Manhattan. He was 67. […]
Sean J Patrick Carney on the ground in Oakland
5733 San Leandro Street, Oakland, CA. Photo: Kirk Crippens and Torre McQueen. Courtesy of the Oakland Cannery Collective. WITH FEWER THAN HALF A MILLION RESIDENTS, Oakland’s complex art ecosystem rivals those of cities twice its size. Muralists, art-school grads, experimental musicians, artist-activists, graffiti writers, and Burning Man sectarians live and […]