From June to December 1989, Gran Fury installed their “Kissing Doesn’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do” series on the sides of buses in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. The series showed three couples – a straight couple, a gay couple, and a lesbian couple – of different races kissing. It was…
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The Pope and the Penis
In 1990, Gran Fury was invited to exhibit in the “Aperto” section of the Venice Biennale. They used this platform to criticize the position of the Catholic Church towards the AIDS crisis in a work entitled “The Pope and the Penis.” The work is made up of two huge posters hung next to each other. …