Avram Finkelstein looks back on Gran Fury’s contribution to the 1990 Venice Biennale, The Pope and the Penis, and considers how the immediacy of social media might have impacted the AIDS activist collective
An interview with Sarah Schulman
When confronted with a deeply damaging past, it becomes necessary to take action to return us to the present
Why ACT UP activists spray-painting over artist David McDiarmid’s ‘Rainbow Aphorisms’ posters scored an own goal
In further news: Angela Gulbenkian sued over Kusama pumpkin; and Pussy Riot re-arrested immediately after release from Russian detention
Robin Campillo’s portrait of ACT UP Paris puts militancy before mourning
AIDS activism now and then – 25 years of ACT UP and Gran Fury
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts / Harvard Art Museum, Boston, USA
