Avram Finkelstein Papers
Call Number
MSS.422
Dates
1968-2015, inclusive
; 1986-2014, bulk
Creator
Finkelstein, Avram
Extent
12 Linear Feet
(10 boxes)
Language of Materials
English .
Abstract
The Avram Finkelstein Papers consist of materials related to the life and work of New York artist and gay rights activist Avram Finkelstein. The bulk of the collection focuses on AIDS-related groups, organizations, individuals, and art collectives responding to political and social movements between the mid-1980s and the late 1990s. A fair amount of material is also drawn from Finkelstein's affiliations with ACT UP, his affinity group Anonymous Queers, and the art collective Gran Fury.
Biographical note
Avram Finkelstein is an artist and writer living in Brooklyn. He is a founding member of the art collective, Gran Fury, with whom he collaborated on public art projects for international institutions including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Venice Biennale, ArtForum, MOCA LA, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Creative Time, and The Public Art Fund. The collective had its first retrospective at 80 WSE in 2012, and has work in the permanent collections of The Whitney, MoMA, The New Museum and The New York Public Library.
His solo work has shown at The Whitney Museum, The Cooper Hewitt Museum, Exit Art, La MaMa La Galleria and The Leslie Lohman Museum, and is in the permanent collections of MoMA, The Whitney, The Metropolitan Museum, The New Museum, The Smithsonian, The Brooklyn Museum
His recent workshops and lectures focus on the "Flash Collective," a new paradigm for rethinking the public sphere, an experiment in political art-making focused on the creation of a one day collective to produce a single art intervention in a public space.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically by folder title, which generally indicates the group or person associated with the folder contents. Within those groupings, materials are organized chronologically, where the date is known.
Scope and Content
This collection consists of materials used and produced by individuals, groups and organizations in response to the AIDS epidemic. Avram's Papers not only contain a number of historical documents, but also help showcase the range of public and private responses issued from different collectives involved with AIDS activism in the late 1980s and beyond. Especially well-represented groups and projects include: ACT UP, Anonymous Queers, Gran Fury and Silence=Death. Ephemera in the collection includes but is not limited to redacted government documents, broadsheets, notes for artworks and articles, t-shirts, and posters.
Subjects
Organizations
People
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open to researchers. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); Avram Finkelstein Papers; MSS 422; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Libraries.
Provenance
The Avram Finkelstein Papers were acquired by NYU's Fales Library & Special Collections from Avram Finkelstein in December 2014. The collection had been stored in Finkelstein's apartment in Brooklyn previous to transfer to NYU.
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Language: Description is written in: English, Latin script.
Processing Information
This collection was processed with the assistance of Avram Finkelstein, who assigned dates and gave additional information at the folder level.
Repository
Fales Library and Special Collections
Series I, 1987-2014, inclusive
3: [affinity group] ephemera, 1992
Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: fact sheets and flyers, March 1987-June 1988, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: sign-in sheets, June 22-29, 1987
Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: "Let the Record Show...", November 1987
Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: press, 1987-1990, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: organizing material [1 of 2], 1987-1995, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: organizing material [2 of 2], 1987-1993, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP FBI Files: Know Your Rights broadsheet, c. 1988
Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP FBI Files [1 of 4], 1988-1993
Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP FBI Files [2 of 4], 1988-1993, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP FBI Files [3 of 4], 1988-1993, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP FBI Files [4 of 4], 1988-1993, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: teach-in about queer history: "A His & Herstory of Queer Activism", June 1989
Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: "A Critique of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group", March 1, 1990
Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: show announcements, incl. first ACT UP fundraiser, 1990, undated
Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: letters and responses to moratorium of clinical trials, February, March 1992, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: "A Direct Action Political Model of Community Research for AIDS Prevention" by Maxine Wolfe, February 21, 1992
Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP at the Republican Convention, August 17-27, 1992
Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP: outreach contacts, undated
Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP affinity group project: AIDS Profiteer stickers, undated
Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Content
Members of this ACT UP affinity group went into drug stores and placed these stickers on prescription bottles produced by targeted pharmaceutical companies.
ACT UP Congressional Action Working Group [1 of 2], 1991-1993, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP Congressional Action Working Group [2 of 2], 1992
Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP media committee: AIDS buzzwords handout, 1988
Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP Seattle: stickers and pin, 1990
Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP Women's Action Committee: "Doctors, Liars and Thieves" film transcript, July 22, 1992
Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Against Equality with Ryan Conrad: Ephemera, 2011, undated
Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers source material for first broadsheet, 1989
Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: notes and responses for the broadsheet newsletters [1 of 3], 1989-1990
Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: notes and responses for the broadsheet newsletters [2 of 3], 1989-1990
Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: notes and responses for the broadsheet newsletters [3 of 3], 1989-[1990]
Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers source material, 1989-1990
Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: David Robinson letter re: broadsheet "I Hate Straights", July 2, 1990
Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers first broadsheet, 1990
Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers (and subgroup) ephemera, 1990
Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: second project, 1991
Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers second broadsheet ephemera, June 1992
Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: Stonewall 25th anniversary broadsheet, 1994
Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Arts Working Group t-shirt at Occupy Wall Street: "Art Killed My Dreams", c. 2011
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: Daily News coverage of first protest, March 25, 1987
Box: 3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "Enjoy AZT" notes, 1988
Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "Enjoy AZT" t-shirt, 1988
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: fax zap to Steven Joseph's office, 1988
Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: Names Project Quilt unfolding ceremony, 1988
Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "Let the Record Show..." notes, 1989
Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "New York Crimes" source material, 1989
Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram's photos/postcard of Jeffrey Pittu + Public Art Fund's "Messages to the Public", January 1, 1989-January 15, 1989
Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: catalogs, 1989-1992
Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: catalogs, 1990-2014
Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: notes for NIH Day of Desperation, January 1991
Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: Marvel Super-heroes Summer Special X-Men Issue, Summer 1991
Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "A Thumbnail Sketch of the History of Scientific Research in America" for the McClintock Project, 1992-1993
Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "News Story on ACT UP/FBI", 1995
Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: exhibition and permissions correspondence, 2010-2014
Box: 3, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: Exhibition catalogs, 2010-2014
Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: Flash Collective ephemera, March 2014
Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: Diane Neumaier slides documenting subway graffiti, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: drafts and notes for articles [1 of 6], c. 1989-1995
Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: drafts and notes for articles [2 of 6], c. 1989-1995
Box: 3, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: drafts and notes for articles [3 of 6], c. 1989-1995
Box: 3, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: drafts and notes for articles [4 of 6], c. 1989-1995
Box: 3, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: drafts and notes for articles [5 of 6], c. 1989-1995
Box: 3, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: drafts and notes for articles [6 of 6], c. 1989-1995
Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: early press clippings, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: press, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram's journal pages documenting Silence=Death, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram's journal, January 1984-June 1988, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Content
Avram bought this journal in Japan in 1983, but began writing in it early 1984. Kept by his bed, the journal includes dream entries, notes for projects, and notes from meetings from the first years of ACT UP. The first bookmark opens to an entry that sketches the first Silence=Death project. The second bookmark opens to an entry in which Bill Olander offers Avram the windows of the New Museum for Gran Fury's "Let the Record Show..." exhibition (1987-1988).
Avram source material: AIDS advertisements and ephemera, undated
Box: 4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Don Moffett: "Fact or Fiction?" and source material, 1988
Box: 4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Don Moffett: rejected cover ideas for "Reports from the Holocaust", c. 1989
Box: 4, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram featured in still from Vincent Gagliostro's video footage, 1989
Box: 4, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: ACT UP campaign notes, c. 1990-1991
Box: 4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: "Storm the NIH" and other, May 1990
Box: 4, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: Day of Desperation action ephemera and notes, January 1991
Box: 4, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: "Enjoy AZT" rationale for Cooper Hewitt Show, 2015
Box: 4, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Visual AIDS, 2011
Box: 4, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [1 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 4, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [2 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 4, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [3 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 4, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [4 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 4, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [5 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 5, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [6 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 5, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [7 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [8 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 5, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Barbara McClintock Project to Cure AIDS [9 of 9], 1992-1993
Box: 5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bob Rafsky material, November 1992
Box: 5, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Canadian groups: ephemera, 2009, 2012, undated
Box: 5, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
CDC Action Planning Group: notes and documents, c. 1990
Box: 5, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
CDC Working Committee: "Background on the Centers for Disease Control", c. 1991
Box: 5, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Civil Disobedience: President Quayle flyer, 1988
Box: 5, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
COSTAS affinity group: photos and "A Costa Her/History", March 2, 1991, June 1989
Box: 5, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Dyke Action Machine: "DAM! Incorporated", 2008
Box: 5, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: "Men Use Condoms or Beat It" sticker, 1988
Box: 6, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: notes, 1988
Box: 6, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: Wall Street money, 1988
Box: 6, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury ad in the Bessie's Award program: "During This Program at Least 6 People with AIDS Will Die", 1988
Box: 6, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury poster: "You've Got Blood On Your Hands, Ed Koch", 1988
Box: 6, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury postcards, 1988-1989
Box: 6, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Contents
These postcards were mostly produced by ACT UP. Included in this folder is a photograph Avram took of the "Kissing Doesn't Kill" bus campaign that shows white-out graffiti done by lesbian activists in San Francisco.
Gran Fury t-shirt: "The Government Has Blood on Its Hands", c. 1988-1989
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Content
This t-shirt was produced by ACT UP for an FDA Action.
Gran Fury: press and permissions, 1988-2010
Box: 6, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: "Kissing Doesn't Kill" notes and "Art Against AIDS" poster template, March 17, 1989
Box: 6, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury catalogs [1 of 2], 1989-1991
Box: 6, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury catalogs [2 0f 2], 1989-1991
Box: 6, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury ephemera, 1989-1999, undated
Box: 6, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: Avram's editing notes for "Kissing Doesn't Kill", [March 1990]
Box: 6, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: Venice Biennale, 1990
Box: 6, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: "Good Luck" notes from the Decades Show, c. 1990
Box: 6, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury collaboration with Prostitutes of New York (PONY): "Love For Sale...Free Condoms Inside" at the New Museum, February 16-April 7, 1991
Box: 6, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: unseen third project "The Christian Agenda Revealed", 1993-1994
Box: 6, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: "Read My Lips" ephemera, 1995
Box: 6, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury t-shirt: "Read My Lips", c. 1995
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: Harvard Art Museum "ACT UP New York" show catalog, April 2010
Box: 6, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: 80 WSE show front piece, 2011
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: 80 WSE show material, 2011
Box: 6, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury catalogue raisonne for 80 WSE show, 2011
Box: 6, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: notes and interview for 80 WSE show, 2011
Box: 6, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury's Opening Ceremony reissued t-shirt: "4 questions", 2012
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: original roll of stickers produced by ACT UP "The Government Has Blood on Its Hands", undated
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Harper Canada AIDS action ephemera, C. 2012
Box: 6, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Lesbian Avengers 1994 calendar, 1994
Box: 6, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Marys: political funeral flyer, c. 1990
Box: 6, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pink Tank: "We Will Not Protect You", 2004
Box: 6, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Queer Action Figures: zine, 1989
Box: 6, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Queer Nation: "The Queer National," vol. 1, no.2, June 1991
Box: 6, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Queer Nation collaboration with Joe Ferrari: "Smash Heterosexism", undated
Box: 6, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Queer Nation t-shirt: "Queers Bash Back", undated
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death: AIDSGATE t-shirt, 1987
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death: AIDSGATE transparency, 1987
Box: 7, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death blank postcard, 1987
Box: 7, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death early handout for Foley Square, 1987
Box: 7, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death: press, permissions and catalogs [1 of 2], 1987-1997
Box: 7, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death: press, permissions and catalogs [2 of 2], 1988-1993
Box: 7, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death AIDS monument at Sheridan Square: photos and letters, c. 1989
Box: 7, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death Ortez Alderson commemorative pin, 1989
Box: 7, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death: William O. Johnston, Jr. obituary and memorial piece, 1990
Box: 7, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death correspondence and annotated folder re: printing, 1991, 1993
Box: 7, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death pins, stickers and magnet, produced by ACT UP, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death t-shirt, undated
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Treatment Action Group (TAG) research, 1990-1993
Box: 7, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Treatment of Data Committee research [1 of 2], 1987-1992
Box: 7, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Treatment of Data Committee research [2 of 2], 1990-1992
Box: 7, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Treatment of Data Committee: FDA Action Handbook, September 21, 1998
Box: 7, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: "Civil Rights Aspects of Public Health Policies and Initiatives to Control AIDS", 1988
Box: 7, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
various collective ephemera: ACT UP, Adam Ralston, AIDS Policy Project, Art + Positive, Boy with Arms Akimbo, CDC working committee [1 of 2], 1988-1991, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
various collective ephemera: Fierce Pussy, GANG, Little Elvis, Nelson Santos, Q-Think, Tom Kalem, WHAM! [2 of 2], 1988-2013, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
various collectives and other individuals: ephemera, 1990-2014, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Visual AIDS tote: AIDS On Going Going On, 2013
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Wave 3 t-shirt: "Harmony Moore has to die", undated
Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
XXX Fruit literary arts quarterly introduction, 1995
Box: 7, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Series I: Oversize, 1968-2014
ACT UP: "What does Koch plan to do about AIDS? Invest in marble and granite" poster, March 1989
Box: 10, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP Reports, no. 2, 4, and 5, June, September/October 1989, 1991/1992, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP oversize posters, 1990, undated
Folder: 12 Left (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Content
"We Think He's Going to Hell Too," 1990 "If you fuck without a condom you risk HIV infection and can get AIDS," n.d.
ACT UP: funeral action, c. 1993
Box: 10, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP demonstration sign: "Which One Do You Trust? Condoms Prevent AIDS Cardinals Don't", undated
Folder: 1 Left (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACT UP Seattle oversize poster, undated
Folder: 11 Left (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Content
for the Health and Human Services Action in D.C., featuring David Wojnarowicz quote.
ACT UP: "Stop this Monster!" poster, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
AIDS Demographics AIDS flag, n.d.
Box: 9, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anonymous Queers: various broadsides and newsletters, 1992, 1994
Box: 9, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: first activist art "sheep who die silently are no use as victims", 1968
Box: 9, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: first screenprint: "Nous Sommes Tous Indesirables", 1968
Box: 10, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "New York Crimes" mock-up, 1989
Box: 10, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "New York Crimes" source material, c. 1989
Box: 9, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: mock-ups for "Enjoy AZT" and "Serial Killer", 1990
Box: 9, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: XXX Fruit match print, December 1995
Box: 9, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: "Lifelines: Recent Work by Avram Finkelstein" at the Harbor Gallery, February 15-March 14, 2013
Box: 10, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram: leather jacket panel featuring the bloody handprint, undated
Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with the AIDS Policy Project: posters, 2014
Box: 10, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Don Moffett: Ed Koch poster mock-ups and source material, 1988
Box: 9, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Don Moffett: rejected cover idea for Larry Kramer's Reports from the Holocaust, c. 1989
Box: 9, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Don Moffett: "WACK-O: Extreme Politics and the Poster" at St. Lawrence University, January 26-February 18, 1998
Box: 10, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: POS Magazine source material and mock-ups, c. 1988
Box: 9, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: Enjoy AZT poster, c. 1989-1991, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: Storm the N.I.H. ACT UP poster, May 21, 1990
Box: 9, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: "Serial Killer" (for Storm the N.I.H. Action), May 21, 1990
Box: 9, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avram collaboration with Vincent Gagliostro: material for the George Bush Action, February 1990
Box: 9, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
CDC demonstration signs, undated
Folder: 13 Right (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Content
"The CDC is a Dead End" "Undercounting AIDS Cases Kills"
CISPES appropriated New York Times, January 5, 1989
Box: 10, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Don Moffett: Ronald Reagan "History Will Plague Him" poster, c. 1988
Box: 9, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Dyke Action Machine oversize poster, undated
Folder: 10 Left (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fierce Pussy: Poster for Visual AIDS, 2013
Box: 10, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Global Justice: Annual Pride Art Exhibition poster, June 16-September 25, 2014
Box: 9, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: "Art is Not Enough" at the Kitchen, 1988-1989
Box: 10, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury mock-ups, c. 1988
Box: 10, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: Nine Days of Fury, Spring 1988
Box: 9, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury oversize posters, 1988, 1993
Folder: 14 Right (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Content
produced by ACT UP. "AIDS: 1 in 61," 1988 "4 Questions," 1993
Gran Fury: Read My Lips Proof, 1988
Box: 9, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: 7 Days article: "A Biennial of Our Own: What You Won't See at the Whitney", May 3, 1989
Box: 9, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: "New York Crimes", 1989
Box: 10, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: oversize poster for "The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s", May 11-August 19, 1990
Folder: 9 Left (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: The Christian Agenda Revealed, 1993
Box: 9, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: Alternative Histories @ Exit Art promotional poster, September 24-November 24, 2010
Box: 10, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: 80 WSE show material, 2011
Box: 9, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gran Fury: Printouts from ACT UP demonstrations for 80 WSE Show, 2011
Box: 10, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Kitchen: promotional poster for "Video for Advocacy & Self-Empowerment", April 6-April 8, 1988
Box: 9, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lee Shy: Re-imagining of a Queer Family, c. 1993
Box: 9, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lesbian Avengers: ephemera, 1993, 1994, undated, inclusive
Box: 10, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Michael O'Brien for ACT UP: "If You Fuck Without A Condom...", c. 1991
Box: 10, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ohio State University: AIDS: The Artists' Response exhibition catalog, February 24-April 16, 1989
Box: 9, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poster Virus: AIDS Action Now posters, 2014
Box: 9, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
QUASH publication: "Why I Hated the March on Washington", c. 1993
Box: 9, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Queer Nation: Calvin Klein poster, c. 1989-1990, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Russian group oversize posters, 1990
Folder: 8 Left (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death poster, produced by ACT UP, 1987
Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Silence=Death poster proof and instructions for the printer, 1988
Box: 9, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tom Kalem: 1968/1988 stickers, 1988
Box: 10, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
