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Article: False witness. (Aids-related art, various artists, Artists Space, New York City)
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- January 22, 1990
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False Witness
WHETHER OR NOT $10,000 of taxpayers' money should have gone to "Witnesses," the exhibition of AIDS-related art at New York's Artists Space, which runs through January 6, is ultimately one of the less important questions that the show raises, and so it will be dealt with first.
Because AIDS is real and because it afflicts real human beings, many of them in the arts, it is not unreasonable that a show like this should have been mounted, nor that it should have sought and received government funding. The show is serious in intent, and except for one or two photographs that some might find objectionable, it aims neither to shock nor to ...