Love & Fury: how poster artists responded to the Aids crisis – in pictures
Why it matters: Visual art can rally public health action and reshape political narratives.
- Gay Men’s Health Crisis and ACT UP produced eye‑catching posters that educated the community on safe sex and pressured officials for action.
- Owen Myers curated the exhibition, linking historic AIDS‑era graphics to today’s activist design trends.
- The exhibition (running until Sept 6) demonstrates how graphic art served as frontline advocacy, confronting stigma and government inaction.
The new “Love & Fury” exhibition chronicles how grassroots groups like GMHC and ACT UP turned graphic design into a weapon against the AIDS epidemic, using bold posters to promote safe sex, demand healthcare, and slam the Reagan administration. Curated by Owen Myers, the show illustrates how visual activism helped shape New York’s public‑health response from the late‑70s to the 2000s.
