William Olander

William "Bill" R. Olander (July 14, 1950 – March 18, 1989) was an American senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City.

[2][3] The unpublished thesis was considered a reference work:[4] Olander was one of the first to highlight the importance of the 1792 proclamation of La patrie en danger.

", which included the ACT UP installation "Let the Record Show...", a workspace "Social Studies: Recent Work on Video and Film" and paintings by Charles Clough and Mimi Thompson.

[13] In 1988 Olander contributed the essay An Artistic Agenda to LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), 10 yrs.

[15][16] In 1987 he invited the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) group to present an installation for the museum's window facing Broadway.

[17] Olander invited ACT UP to mount the installation after an anonymous poster bearing the phrase Silence=Death began appearing throughout Manhattan.

[20][21] Every year Visual AIDS presents the "Bill Olander Award" to art workers or artists living with HIV.