CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/1/2025

Inspiration for now in 'Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough'

Out now from MASP and KMEC Books, Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough is, unfortunately, perfectly timed for this moment in America—not only looking back to our recent pandemic, but applied to the current administration’s epic war on diversity, gender freedom and civil rights. The first major survey of the game-changing NYC activist artist collective whose late-80s to mid-90s graphic artworks fearlessly demanded change around the outrages of the AIDS epidemic, this indispensable catalog includes 156 reproductions of artworks, documentary photographs, pamphlets, manifestoes and other rare ephemera, alongside previously unpublished essays and historical interviews.

Above: Read My Lips (Men’s version) on T-shirt. Original artwork, photocopy on paper, ACT UP, Spring AIDS Action, 1988.