New York, NY —
At the height of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s, activists started a commemoration called "A Day Without Art." Museums and galleries closed, and pieces of art were shrouded in black. It marked the memory of the many visual and performing artists taken by the disease. Almost 20 years later, Queens-based artist and curator, Hector Conage, thinks that more art, not less, can help people understand the disease at a human level. Carolina Gonzalez has his story.