Day Without Art to Mark AIDS Crisis : Reflection: Mourning, remembrance and celebration of the enduring contributions of artists will be part of the worldwide event on Thursday.

By SEAN MONIQUE FAUSTINA

Nov. 30, 1994 12 AM PT

TIMES STAFF WRITER

Thursday will mark the sixth year of a Day Without Art. On this day of mourning and remembrance, symbolic events, draped exhibitions, moments of silence and interrupted performances will occur at cultural institutions worldwide.

The event is sponsored by Visual AIDS, a New York-based volunteer group of arts professionals working to increase awareness of AIDS and related social issues as well as to promote action to end the AIDS crisis. This year’s events celebrate and support the work of artists with AIDS and addresses the needs and concerns of teen-agers and young adults.

“This is a day of reflection. While we are without much of the art that usually surrounds us, we are filled with the lasting memories of those artists who brought their dreams and imaginations to life,” National Endowment for the Arts Chair Jane Alexander said in a press release of the project. “We at the arts endowment join with Visual AIDS and communities across the nation in commemorating Day Without Art as a tribute to the artists whose legacies live on through their enduring creations.”

A selected list of participating Southern California arts organizations follows.

ORANGE COUNTY

Newport Harbor Art Museum (850 San Clemente Drive, Newport Beach, (714) 759-1122. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Admission is free; donations will benefit the AIDS Response Program. “Elysian,” (1980), by Jay Phillips, who died of AIDS in 1987, will be on display in the museum lobby. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Coast Ballet will dedicate its Thursday lecture and dance demonstration to people with AIDS and discuss AIDS prevention.

Irvine Barclay Theatre (4242 Campus Drive, Irvine, (714) 854-4646). Orange County’s major performing arts organizations come together for an AIDS benefit. AIDS organizations will be on hand to accept donations. Participating groups include the Pacific Symphony, South Coast Repertory, Opera Pacific, the Pacific Chorale’s Intermediate Children’s Choir, Ballet Pacifica and a taped performance by the Master Chorale of Orange County. 8 p.m. Free.

UC Irvine School of Fine Arts (UC Irvine, (714) 824-2787). In the Fine Arts Concert Hall (Mesa Road at Bridge Road, Irvine): James Calleri directs “JACK/of all trade: New Voices in the AIDS Crisis,” a performance including theater, prose, poetry and music by New York artists and AIDS activists David Greenspan, David B. Feinberg, Diamanda Galas, Essex Hemphill, Tony Kushner, David Wojnarowicz and ACT-UP/New York. Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. $7 to $9. In the Fine Arts Village Theatre (Mesa Road at Bridge Road, Irvine): UCI Dance Visions presents “Candles in the Wind” Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. Pre-performance talk Thursday at 7 p.m. in Studio 4. $7 to $14. In the Fine Arts Olive Grove (Mesa Road at Bridge Road, Irvine): Richard Soto conducts the UCI Women’s Choral Ensemble in a free concert Thursday at noon. All activities are part of the first Artists & AIDS Project by the UCI School of Fine Arts.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY

The Huntington Library (1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, (818) 405-2141. Open 1 to 4:30 p.m. Suggested donation is $7.50 for adults, $6 for seniors, $4 for students and 18 and under, 12 and under, free.).

Three garden sculptures will be draped in black shrouds at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. A large marble urn known as the “Borghese Crater” and a pair of life-sized Great Danes will be shrouded for the event.

J. Paul Getty Museum (17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, (310) 458-2003. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Admission is free, but advance parking reservations are required. The museum will shroud the “Joubert Commode” (1769), the “Urbino Trilobed” Basin (ca. 1565-1571) and “The Harpist,” (ca. 2500 BC), the earliest work in the museum’s collection. The draped works will be dedicated to staff members or professional colleagues whose lives have been claimed by the disease. Proceeds from museum bookstore sales on Thursday will be donated to Bienestar AIDS project, supporting those affected by AIDS in the Latino community of greater Los Angeles.

Museum of Contemporary Art (250 S. Grand Ave., (213) 621-1748. Open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.). Admission is free, voluntary donations for a local AIDS service organization will be accepted. Adults, families and young people are welcome. From noon to 1:30 p.m., members of the AIDS Project Los Angeles Writers’ Workshop will present readings of new stories, essays and poems in the museum’s Ahmanson auditorium. The works of Los Angeles artists Cheri Gaulke, Gronk, Lari Pittman and Patricia Nell Warren and several young people will be featured in a program for young adults from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Ahmanson Auditorium. The artists will conduct a limited number of free workshop/mentoring sessions for students.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (5905 Wilshire Blvd., (213) 857-6522. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Admission is $6 for adults, $4 for seniors and students 18 and over with ID, $1 for youths 6 to 17 and free admission for children 5 and younger. The galleries displaying the museum’s permanent collection of contemporary art will be dimmed and “Black Planet” (for A.Z.) (1988), by Robert Longo, will be shrouded in memory of dancer and choreographer Arnie Zane, who died of AIDS in 1988. The lamps in Christian Boltanski’s “Reliquary” (1989) will remain illuminated to symbolize hope for the future. “Every Ten Minutes,” (1991) an audio installation by artist Robert Farber of a church bell tolling the current rate of U.S. AIDS deaths, can be heard in the museum’s Times Mirror Central Court.

Japanese American National Museum (369 E. 1st St., Little Tokyo, (213) 625-0414. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free, donation requested).

“Textures of a Quilt Unheard: Voices of Asian Americans,” presented by the museum and the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday. Featuring Amy Hill, Dan Kwong, Napoleon Lustre, Ric Parish, James Sakakura, Irene Suico Soriano, Joel B. Tan, Denise Uyehara and others.

OTHER MUSEUMS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Palm Springs Desert Museum (101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs, (619) 325-7186. Open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.). Admission is $5 for adults, $4 seniors, $2 youths 6 to 17, students and military personnel with ID. Co-sponsored by the Desert AIDS Project, two 12-foot-square sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on exhibition through Sunday. Included is a panel made by museum members to honor Steve Chase, who donated his extensive contemporary art collection to the Palm Springs Desert Museum. Selections from the Steve Chase Collection are installed in adjacent galleries.

COMMUNITY GALLERIES

Power in America (A Collaborative Landscape): A 10-day series including installation, video and performance art dealing with the issues of AIDS at the 18th Street Arts Complex (1646 18th St., Santa Monica). The installation is open daily through Dec. 10, noon until 5 p.m. Conceived by Robert Millar and Mark Zolun, it includes the works of Roy Dowell, Joe Santarromana, Phillip Pirolo, Karen Atkinson, James Murray, Lowell Nickel, Linda Sibio, Cory Roberts-Auli, Al Winn and others.

The performance series kicks off Thursday with “A Certain Level of Denial,” by Karen Finley.

Friday and Saturday: ‘A Contemporary Blues Opera (in process)” with Robert Millar, Mark Zolun & Friends.

Sunday: “Replicate,” including contemporary dance and movement by Oguri Renzoku, Jeffrey Moore, Tom Cendejas, Melinda Ring, Christine Berry, Keegan & Lloyd and Michael Kelly.

Tuesday: Three performances: “Cuerpo Polizitado” by Luis Alfaro, “Sangre” by Donald Krieger and Weba Garretson and “Somewhere in the Sahara” by Greg Johnson.

Dec. 7: “Deliverance,” a performance by Ron Athey & Co.

Dec. 8: “Monstrous Progeny of Tyrannical Parents,” readings by writers associated with CalArts, both faculty and graduates: Benjamin Weissman, Leslie Dick, Dick Hebdiege, Danny Babcock, Richard Hawkins and Matias Viegener.

Dec. 9: “In Memory Of . . . , “ a series of video eulogies featuring the work of George Kuchar, Shalom Gorewitz, John Sanborn, Bill T. Jones, Jack Walsh, Leslie Thornton, Cheri Gaulke and the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, will be presented by JoAnn Hanley of LACE.

Dec. 10: “Valley of the Dolls,” performances and readings by John Fleck, Keith Mayerson, Leonard Bravo, Ferd Eggan and others.

All performances begin at 8:30 p.m. Tickets $5-$15. For tickets/reservations, call (213) 660-TKTS.

Highways (1651 18th St., Santa Monica, (310) 453-1755, Open 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday. Admission is free).

“Restoration Project,” a permanent installation at the gallery. Visitors are encouraged to assist with renewing the names that commemorate family, friends and loved ones who have died of AIDS and to add their own names.

Side Street Projects (1629 18th St., Santa Monica, (310) 828-0620).

“For the Time Being . . .,” a public art project consisting of 20 altered parking meters throughout Los Angeles that have been wired for sound. When money is put into the meter, a tape plays text written by artists and writers with HIV/AIDS and their friends and family. The money collected in the meters will support the work of artists with AIDS. Call Side Street Projects for meter locations.

Municipal Art Gallery and Junior Arts Gallery (4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, (213) 485-4581. Open 12:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday. Regular admission to the “LAX: The Los Exhibition,” is $1.50). The galleries will feature the audiocassette “Every Ten Minutes” and the video “The Witness Project Names Tape.” Admission to these events is free.

Couturier Gallery (166 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, (213) 933-5557. Benefit opening Friday, 7 to 9 p.m., and running Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Dec. 31. The suggested donation of $10 for the benefit opening will benefit the Be True to Yourself Foundation).

“Tom Bianchi: Bob & Rod,” photographs from his new book.

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

The AIDS Service Center (126 W. Del Mar Blvd., Pasadena, (818) 796-8198. Open from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 30.) “The Night Before a Day Without Art” will be presented. The show’s theme is “Influences: People, Places and Things Affecting Your Life in a Profound Way.”

LAC+USC Medical Center (2020 Zonal Ave., Los Angeles, (213) 662-6434. Art opening Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m. at the Rand Schrader 5P21 Clinic, exhibit runs through Jan. 15. Performance Saturday, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Mayer Auditorium, Keith Administration Building. Tickets are $10 and include eligibility for a drawing of donated artworks).

“Romance With AIDS--Performance and Art Exhibition” is a fund-raiser for the Roger D. Arthur 5P21 Art Coalition. The art coalition showcases artists whose lives have been impacted by HIV/AIDS.

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center (681 Venice Blvd., Venice, (310) 822-3006. Friday, 8:30 p.m. Admission is $6 general, $3 for members, students and seniors).

“Blood Whispers: Vol 2,” Terry Wolverton, Nancy Agabian, Tracy Cave, Rick Sandford and Joel B. Tan present readings from the novel.

KUSC-FM (91.5) will observe “Day Without Art” Thursday with a special segment by Frank Albinder of the a cappella group Chanticleer on its Commuter Classics program, 3 to 6 p.m.