“Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody” is the latest high-profile art exhibit to hit the Twin Cities. The work of Keith Haring, the renowned artist and activist who died of AIDS in 1990 at the age of 31 ...
In the spring of 1989, just after turning 31 and about 10 months before he died, Keith Haring drew a self-portrait in black ink on white paper. It says a lot about the way he approached his work — ...
Nevertheless, Haring’s art is strong enough to justify a good, long look by the museum. Part of Haring’s appeal is that his story has a blue-collar, up-from-obscurity quality that seems almost mythic ...
As part of the Walker’s Keith Haring programming, it’s reviving ArtFest for three days starting on Thursday May 30. 40 years ago, a 25-year old Keith Haring came to the Walker Art Center for his only ...
During a 1981 visit to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson in upstate New York, Keith Haring took a magic marker to professor Tom Wolf's office wall and drew five crawling babies — figures that became ...
It was 1982, and 24-year-old artist Keith Haring was being handcuffed and escorted out of the New York City subway, where he'd been drawing cartoonish chalk figures on the walls before ads could be ...
Social activism was built into the art of Keith Haring—one of the most widely recognized modern artists of our time. From promoting AIDS awareness to being vocally against apartheid and other issues, ...
Assisted by fellow artist Juan Dubose (not pictured), Keith Haring paints a large mural at East Houston Street and the Bowery in the summer of 1982. The installation is said to be Haring’s first large ...
Keith Haring was an artist and a major voice in early HIV/AIDS awareness in the '80s. With his signature visual style, pieces like "Stop AIDS" remain highly recognizable and vital to this day. Keith ...
Keith Haring once completed more than 50 murals in a single year. Now, 34 years after his death, one of his murals is exclusively on display at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art. Haring's ...
About a dozen teens from the Oneonta Teen Center traveled to Cooperstown Friday to tour the Fenimore Art Museum and paint a mural in the style of Keith Haring for the museum. “The mural is based on ...
It was 1982, and 24-year-old artist Keith Haring was being handcuffed and escorted out of the New York City subway, where he’d been drawing cartoonish chalk figures on the walls before ads could be ...