The following is adapted from the introduction I wrote to the catalog of Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985-2010, which will be shown for the first time in New ...

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 ...

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 ...

It defined an era, and forever altered the way people would view health, sexuality, and relationships. Since the initial discovery of HIV 30 years ago, the AIDS pandemic has transformed the globe, ...

Though the first display of the AIDS Quilt did not take place until October 11, 1987, during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, its origin was a 1985 candlelight vigil ...

On December 1 every year, the world stops to take a moment of solidarity, memory and renewed commitment: that is World AIDS Day. In 2025, the stakes feel higher. As the global healthcare budgets are ...

This year’s World AIDS Day also marks the 30th year of the pandemic. So over this month we’ll be examining AIDS-related poster campaigns, works of art and interviews with contemporary HIV-positive ...

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 ...