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“David Wojnarowicz’s Untitled (Buffalo) is one of the decade’s most haunting artistic responses to the AIDS crisis. A photograph of an Old West diorama from a Washington, DC, museum, the work depicts stampeding buffalo plummeting off the edge of a cliff to certain death. Careening into the abyss, the sturdy animals tumble head over tail, propelled forward by their own considerable weight. One buffalo stands poised at the top of the cliff, with front hooves silhouetted against the open sky. He has seen the others drop but remains powerless before the inertia of the fall. Made in the wake of the artist’s HIV-positive diagnosis, Wojnarowicz’s image draws a parallel between the AIDS crisis and the state-sponsored purging of buffalo in the United States in the nineteenth century, reminding viewers of the outright neglect and marginalization that characterized the politics of HIV/AIDS.”