Day With(out) Art is held each year as an international day of action and awareness in response to the AIDS crisis. Founded in 1989 by a group of artists, more than 800 arts organizations, museums and galleries throughout the U.S. participated in the first iteration by shrouding artworks and replacing them with information about HIV and safer sex, locking their doors or dimming their lights, and producing exhibitions, programs, readings, memorials, rituals, and performances. 

This year, Experience a variety of activities and tours centered at the National Portrait Gallery; along G Street NW; and at the MLK Library.