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Love & Fury: how poster artists responded to the Aids crisis – in pictures

A new exhibition titled 'Love & Fury: New York’s Fight Against AIDS' showcases posters created by grassroots groups and artists in response to the AIDS crisis from the late 1970s to the 2000s. The show features works from collectives like the Silence=Death Project and Gay Men’s Health Crisis, as well as artists including Keith Haring and Howard Cruse, highlighting how graphic design was used to promote safe sex, demand government action, and build community resilience.

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Artist, writer, and activist Avram Finkelstein, a founding member of ACT UP, Silence=Death, and Gran Fury, presents his first solo exhibition in New York City, titled “Something Terrible Has Happened (Corpus Fluxus)” at Smack Mellon. The show features large-scale drawings and digital prints on walls, ceilings, and wheeled metal structures that also serve as mobility aids for Finkelstein, who has thyroid cancer. Works such as "Golem (BRAF V600E mutation)" and "Black Golem (after Bergman)" explore themes of disability, pain, and the body in flux, using the Jewish folklore figure of the golem as a central metaphor. The exhibition transforms the gallery into an "experiential dancehall," emphasizing accessibility through movement and sensory engagement.