Keith Haring + City Kids Speak on Liberty #1 Keith Haring Biography Born on 4 May, 1958, in Reading, Pennsylvannia, Keith Haring was best known for striking grafitti-inspired drawings that took him from New York City’s streets, subways and clubs to museums and public spaces around the worl...
Keith Haring began experimenting with his bold, graphic lines and cartoon-inspired figures on the walls of New York City subway stations in the early 1980s. He called them his “laboratory,” places to develop a radical new aesthetic based on an ideology of creating truly democratic public art...
"I found out that I can make any kid smile. It's probably from having a funny face to begin with-and looking and acting like a kid. And kids can relate to my drawings, because of the simple lines." Keith Haring, Keith Haring: the Authorized Biography, John Gruen, New York, 1991,...
Disney Sought Keith Haring Collaboration Shortly Before His Death, New Biography Reveals The studio proposed a project that would include "Mickey Mouse as seen through the eyes of Keith Haring." By Alex Greenberger Feb 20, 2024 10:56 am News Man Charged Attempted Theft of Works by Warhol...
Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography John Gruen in Haring's words... "Another project of 1986 was my mural called Crack Is Wack, which is located on the East Harlem Drive at 128th Street. When I discovered this wall, it was a handball court that was more or less abandoned and which...
number in the thousands, and they quickly created a popular following for his lively figural and patterned imagery and his cheekily outlaw activity. Haring shared few of the “tagging” tactics of urban graffitists, being drawn instead to the possibilities of a new public andvernacularkind of ...
for the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty in 1986, on which Haring worked with 900 children; a mural on the exterior of Necker Children’s Hospital in Paris, France in 1987; and a mural painted on the western side of the Berlin Wall three years before its fall. Haring also ...
kids, arming them with brushes and attacking the nearest wall. Wright suggests Haring’s “compassion for the weak and vulnerable, his critical eye to unjust systems, his celebration of the body and human dignity—this was all part of Haring’s sensibility, and it’s deeply Christ-like too,...
Keith Haring + City Kids Speak on Liberty #1 Keith Haring Biography Born on 4 May, 1958, in Reading, Pennsylvannia, Keith Haring was best known for striking grafitti-inspired drawings that took him from New York City’s streets, subways and clubs to museums and public spaces around the worl...
Keith Haring was quickly noticed for the realism of his perception of the body and sexuality. The erotic figures that he developed then resonated as the translation of the confidence necessary to any union acting on the loss, within that union, of the individuality of each of them. Throughout...