UK Aids Memorial Quilt to go on display at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
Quilt, made in 1980s to raise awareness, to be shown as US cuts raise fears of Aids resurgence in some countriesA giant quilt made to remember people who died of Aids in Britain is to be publicly displayed later this year at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London.The UK Aids Memorial Quilt was created in the 1980s at the height of the epidemic to raise awareness of the disease and humanise the people who died from it. By the end of 2011, 20,335 people diagnosed with HIV had died in the UK. Continue reading...
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Quilt, made in 1980s to raise awareness, to be shown as US cuts raise fears of Aids resurgence in some countries
A giant quilt made to remember people who died of Aids in Britain is to be publicly displayed later this year at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London.
The UK Aids Memorial Quilt was created in the 1980s at the height of the epidemic to raise awareness of the disease and humanise the people who died from it. By the end of 2011, 20,335 people diagnosed with HIV had died in the UK. Continue reading...
