CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/12/2025
Join us February 13–15, 2025, for the College Art Association's Annual Conference in New York! Please visit us at Booth 218 to browse forthcoming, new and classic Academic Titles including Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough—the subject of a panel discussion on Friday, February 14, from 4:30–6:30 PM (see below). In neighboring Booth 216, enjoy a special selection of titles from DelMonico Books, including Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film, published to accompany the exhibition on view now at LACMA.
ABOVE: "Read My Lips (Men’s version)" on T-shirt. Original artwork, photocopy on paper, ACT UP, Spring AIDS
Action, 1988. From Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough, published by MASP/KMEC BOOKS.
GRAN FURY: ACTIVISM, ART AND DESIGN PANEL
Friday, February 14: 4:30–6 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor
John Lindell in conversation with Tom Kalin, Kyle Croft, Robert Vázquez-Pacheco and Richard E. Meyer
Join us for a panel discussion on
Gran Fury, the activist artist collective that emerged from ACT UP and is known for their impactful work during the AIDS crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Our panelists will examine how Gran Fury used graphic design and public art to address social issues, focusing on projects like the "Kissing Doesn't Kill" campaign.
Gran Fury formed to summon a sense of collective indignation. The group produced posters, newspapers, stickers, photographs, videos and billboards that were circulated to transform perceptions about HIV/AIDS and challenge ineffective public policies. Gran Fury’s agitprop art, often disseminated outside of traditional art spaces, sparked a monumental shift in both the American history of medicine and public opinion overall.
Original Gran Fury members Tom Kalin, John Lindell and Robert Vázquez-Pacheco, along with Kyle Croft and Richard Meyer, will be discussing the collective’s strategies and enduring influence, as well as
Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough, the sweeping forthcoming catalog of the group’s body of work.
Kyle Croft is the Executive Director of Visual AIDS. He co-edited Visual AIDS’s recent monograph on the late artist
Darrel Ellis. Filmmaker and activist
Tom Kalin is a prominent figure in the New Queer Cinema.
John Lindell is a New York-based visual artist. He is represented by Corvi-Mora.
Robert Vázquez-Pacheco is a visual artist and writer in New York. He is also an AIDS activist, and community educator and organizer.
Richard Meyer is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University. He is the author of
Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art.
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EXAMINATION COPIES
This year, we are pleased to offer free examination copies of the following books:
Fantasy: Invention, Creativity, and Imagination in Visual Communications, authored by Bruno Munari and published by Inventory Press
More Than the Eyes: Art, Food and the Senses, authored by Ellen Mara De Wachter and published by Atelier Éditions / D.A.P.
The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, published by Dancing Foxes Press
Wicked Arts Education: Designing Creative Programmes, published by Valiz
Heads Together: Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965–1973, authored by by David Jacob Kramer and published by Edition Patrick Frey
Ordering information for our 2025 Examination Copies
here!
ABOVE: Our booth in Chicago, 2024
BOOK & TRADE FAIR
LOCATION
Artbook | D.A.P. Booth 218
New York Hilton Midtown
Rhinelander Gallery, 2nd Floor
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
HOURS
Thursday, 2/13: 9 AM–6 PM
Friday, 2/14: 9 AM–6 PM
Saturday, 2/15: 9 AM–2:30 PM
