For activists, HIV/AIDS was an emergency, a time of “any means necessary,” says Jessica Lacher-Feldman, co-editor of Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster. Her new book explores the ...
University Gallery presents a satellite exhibition in collaboration with Memorial Art Gallery’s “Up Against the Wall” main exhibition, March 6 - June 19, 2022. The 42 HIV/AIDS posters in the RIT ...
In the early 1980s, as AIDS ravaged the gay community in the U.S., two people emerged as the epidemic's first “poster boy” ...
Demonstrators, many with signs, participate in a die-in organized by ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), in Foley Square in New York City, Oct. 16, 1990. They lie around a coffin the reads 'Ryan ...
December 1 is the annual World AIDS Day observance. An estimated 78 million people have become infected with HIV, and 35 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses since 1981. Up Against the ...