“A Space Where We Felt Welcome”: Community and Mutual Aid During the AIDS Crisis
Join artist and photographer Lola Flash for a six-part podcast series exploring New York City during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and ‘90s.
Episode three looks at the ways people built community during the epidemic, and how these communities mobilized to spread knowledge, resources, and care. Flash is joined by friends Aldo Hernandez, Pamela Sneed, and Idris Mignott to discuss two organizations: the Clit Club and the Hetrick-Martin Institute.
Learn more about Lola Flash, her work, and the stories shared in this project at https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/1222
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“I’m Laughing so I Don’t Cry”: Coming together during the AIDS crisis
Join artist and photographer Lola Flash for a six-part series exploring New York City during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and ‘90s.
Episode two reunites Flash with her longtime friend Aldo Hernandez. They discuss their involvement with ACT UP and two sites that helped shape their activism: the LGBT Center in Greenwich Village and Aldo’s apartment near Tompkins Square Park.
Learn more about Lola Flash, her work, and the stories shared in this project at https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/1222
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“The History We Remember”: NYC During the AIDS Crisis
Join artist and photographer Lola Flash for a six-part series exploring the sites, sounds, and stories of New York City during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and ’90s. In this first episode, Flash introduces the series and the people you’ll meet along the way.
Learn more about Lola Flash, her work, and the stories shared in this project at https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/1222
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Designing for Climate Change
A climate scientist and an architect discuss how design can be a force for positive environmental change.
“I certainly remember, as a child growing up in the UK, we had a lot more snow than we do recently,” says UK-based climate scientist Ed Hawkins in this month’s episode of the Magazine podcast. Hawkins’s work, which visualizes the globe’s warming temperatures over the last 160 years, is striking in more ways than one, showing us just how quickly and dramatically the environment has been changing.
But climate change is more than escalating temperatures. It has tangible effects on how people live, and architects like Marina Tabassum have been using design as a tool to address hazardous conditions like flooding and soil erosion. For this Earth Month edition of the Magazine Podcast, we’ll also hear from Tabassum about her collaboration with Bangladesh’s landless populations and her project Khudi Bari (tiny house).
Access a transcript of the conversation at https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/1212.
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Frequency Gardens: This Room Feels Like a Hug
Listen to a teen-led conversation with DonChristian Jones, about building spaces for belonging and memory.
When artist DonChristian Jones started at MoMA as the inaugural Adobe Creative Resident, they created a vision for working with young people to share their stories about what art and community meant to them. In the summer of 2024, DonChristian—through their Residency at MoMA, along with the nonprofit they run, Public Assistant—and the Lower Eastside Girls Club collaborated on Frequency Gardens, a summer program and radio show.
Over the course of a month, eight teens learned how to record and edit audio, conduct live interviews, and tell their stories through art. Four of the teen participants interviewed DonChristian about their collaborative process and what it was like to hear themselves as part of the exhibition.
Read a transcript of the audio: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/1208
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