Artwork of the 80's
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Nicholas Africano, Boy Eating Fruit (1987)
©Nicholas Africano

1987

CAM presents a group show, Floating Values: A Survey of Gendered Investigations in collaboration with Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Other exhibitions include A Survey of American Printmaking from the Collections of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester and Peter Sowiski: Works on Paper.

The NAMES Project Quilt, devoted to those who have died of AIDS is first displayed on the Mall, in Washington, D.C. CAM will display part of this quilt in 1997.

The “Iran-Contra” hearings are held and televised in the U.S.

On Black Monday, October 19, the stock market drops 22%.

The world population reaches 5 billion.