David Wojnarowicz speaking at the MoMA event “In Memoriam: A Gathering of Hope, A Day Without Art,” November 30, 1989. © Star Black. Department of Public Information Records, II.B.2406. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York
November 30, 1989: On the eve of the first “Day without Art” (held on WorldAIDS day, December 1), David reads at the MoMA memorial In Memoriam: A Gathering of Hope, A Day Without Art held At the same event, Composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein dedicates a piece to “those I love who have died of AIDS”—weeks after refusing The National Medal of Arts from President Bush in protest of the NEA’s revoking funding for the Artists Space catalog, Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, containing David’s essay “Post Cards from America: X-Rays from Hell.”