Artists and AIDS

Writer Nadine Gordimer and a personally selected literary A-list have created a new anthology whose profits will go to a southern African organization that helps people with AIDS and H.I.V. A recent New York Times article revealed how this team of artist-activists came together.

Meanwhile dance critic and writer David Gere has written a new book, How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS which looks at both the impact of AIDS on the dance community and the dance community’s creative response. This Village Voice article reviews the book.