Selections the AIDS Cover Art
from
CHRONICLES
Institute of Cultural Inquiry
The AIDS Chronicles is the ICI’s most comprehensive on-going project. It is comprised of over 7,800 cover pages from the New York Times, one for each day of the year from 1993 to present. Each Chronicle year is divided into a multi-volume set, which begins on December 1st of the prior year and ends with November 30th. The pages are treated on both sides with three layers of acrylic paint, both obscuring everything except for the date line, obituaries and any front page article or reference to HIV or AIDS, and recording the (lack of) day-to-day discourse on AIDS in one of the most prevalent newspapers in the United States. This process is repeated annually and the pages are displayed publically on select years for World AIDS Day, after which, each Chronicle is bound by a different artist commissioned specifically for that year. This booklet features a sampling of the cover art that has bound the Chronicles over the last 20 years.
The 1995 Chronicle Esteban Chavez
The 2007 Chronicle Cindy Moon
The 1997 Chronicle Gary Brown 1997
The 2000 Chronicle Deborah Paulsen
The 2003 Chronicle Christel Dillbohner