In honor of World AIDS Day on December 1, Tacoma Art Museum will be open from noon to 8 pm, and all admission is by-donation. You really will be sorry if you don't see the remarkable exhibition Art AIDS America before it closes January 10, and there's extra motivation tomorrow with the museum open late and serving drinks and light refreshments to accompany a program of talks and personal readings along with the exhibition.

Here are a few more of the works in the exhibition, and I've written about others here, here, and here.

In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy. Packaged condoms with printed text by Jenny Holzer, 1983-85. At Tacoma Art Museum.
"In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy." Packaged condoms with printed text by Jenny Holzer, 1983-85. At Tacoma Art Museum. Courtesy Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis

In the center of Thomas Haukaass antique ledger painting More Time Expected (2002), a horse with no rider.
In the center of Thomas Haukaas's antique ledger painting More Time Expected (2002), a horse with no rider. Courtesy Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom in honor of Rock Hushka

This is a detail of Keith Harings Altar Piece, bronze with white gold-leaf patina.
This is a detail of Keith Haring's Altar Piece, bronze with white gold-leaf patina. Courtesy of Denver Art Museum, Gift of Yoko Ono

And this is what some of the visitors have to say so far.