Gran Fury

AIDS Behind Bars
1988

A black and white poster with bold text at the top stating "25% TEST POSITIVE" and an image of a person's eyes looking through prison bars. Below the image, text reads "People with AIDS in prison live 1/2 as long as those treated outside. Let's put AIDS education and treatment behind bars." Additional text provides information about the lack of AIDS education and resources in N.Y. State prisons, a call to action to send a condom to a prison official, and details about a protest event with speakers from ADAPT and the Whitman Walker Clinic.

A black and white poster with bold text at the top stating "25% TEST POSITIVE" and an image of a person's eyes looking through prison bars. Below the image, text reads "People with AIDS in prison live 1/2 as long as those treated outside. Let's put AIDS education and treatment behind bars." Additional text provides information about the lack of AIDS education and resources in N.Y. State prisons, a call to action to send a condom to a prison official, and details about a protest event with speakers from ADAPT and the Whitman Walker Clinic.

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Date
1988

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photocopy

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 3/8 × 10 3/8in. (41.6 × 26.4 cm) Image: 16 3/8 × 10 3/8in. (41.6 × 26.4 cm)

Accession number
2018.121

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gran Fury

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/59735

Exhibitions

An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017

Aug 18, 2017–Aug 27, 2018

Gran Fury
7 works in the collection

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