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Keith Haring
Keith Allen Haring was an American artist and activist. His bold, graphic imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Emerging from New York City's downtown art and graffiti scenes in the early 1980s, he transformed subway chalk drawings into an internationally celebrated career that bridged street art and Pop art.
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culture · American artist and social activist (1958–1990) · painter · writer · draftsperson · social activist · jewelry designer · photographer · graphic artist · sculptor · muralist · cartoonist · also Keith Haring, Keith Allen Haring, Haring
Born 4 May 1958 · Died 1 January 1989 · Q485635
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘I told his family he was HIV positive’: Keith Haring’s best friend on life with the artist as unseen works go on show
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2025· 1 entry
Queerty: Keith Haring’s life is set to be turned into a TV series by ‘Looking’ director Andrew Haigh
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2024· 5 entries
Hyperallergic: The Elementary School That Welcomed Keith Haring
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Forbes: Keith Haring Tops List Of Most Popular Street Artists In The United States, Underscoring The Need To Preserve His Beloved Public Pool Mural In New York’s West Village
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Forbes: Keith Haring In The Heartland
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Artnet: Keith Haring Almost Landed a Dream Deal with Disney, According to a New Biography
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NBC News: AI altered a Keith Haring painting about the AIDS crisis — and, for some, ruined its meaning
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2023· 4 entries
Artnet: Keith Haring’s Never-Before-Seen Computer Drawings Are Hitting the Block as NFTs at a New Christie’s Online Auction
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Hyperallergic: Keith Haring Saw the Future in His Art
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Yahoo: Timelier than ever, Keith Haring's first L.A. museum show shines a neon-bright light on his art and activism
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The Broad presented Haring's first museum exhibition in Los Angeles, Keith Haring: Art is for Everyone
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2022· 2 entries
Los Angeles Times: More than 120 Keith Haring pieces are coming to L.A. next year — here’s how to see them
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The exhibition Keith Haring: Grace House Mural was displayed at the Schunck Museum in Heerlen
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2021· 1 entry
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver displayed the exhibition Keith Haring: Grace House Mural, which consisted of 13 panels from a mural Haring painted at a Catholic youth center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in e
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2019· 3 entries
Haring's work was exhibited at Gladstone Gallery in Belgium and the New York Law School in Manhattan
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Was one of the inaugural 50 American "pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes" inducted onto the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor at the Stonewall Inn in New York City
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To an anonymous private collector for $3
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2018· 1 entry
Haring's Untitled (1984) sold for over $4
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2017· 1 entry
“s book, Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing, which ranked among the top ten sellers every week for over a year in the Amazon category of Children”
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2015· 1 entry
A judge ruled in favor of the foundation
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2014· 2 entries
A group of nine art collectors sued the foundation, claiming that it has cost them at least $40 million by refusing to authenticate 80 purported Haring works
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Was among the inaugural honorees of the Rainbow Honor Walk in San Francisco, a walk of fame recognizing LGBTQ people who made significant contributions in their fields
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2013· 1 entry
And is Haring's longest standing public mural at its original location
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2012· 1 entry
The Keith Haring Foundation disbanded its authentication board to focus on its charitable activities
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2008· 1 entry
There was a retrospective exhibition at the MAC in Lyon, France
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2007· 4 entries
The book Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails (2007) by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé details their relationship.
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In Hokuto, Yamanashi, Japan, is an art museum exhibiting exclusively the artworks of Haring
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A significant Untitled (1982), depicting a trio of spotted dogs jumping through the hollow center of a standing figure, sold for over $2
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Haring's painted aluminum sculpture Self-Portrait (1989) was displayed in the lobby of the Arsenal in Central Park, as part of the retrospective exhibition The Outdoor Gallery: 40 Years of Public Art in New York City Par
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1996· 1 entry
A retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia was the first major exhibition of his work in Australia
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1990· 6 entries
Which would have been Haring's 32nd birthday, a memorial service was held at the Cathedral of St
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Haring died of AIDS-related complications at his LaGuardia Place apartment in Greenwich Village
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Called Rivera and spent three days with him
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Shortly before Haring died in 1990, he called Rivera and spent three days with him.
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The Whitney Museum of American Art organized a retrospective of his work in 1997
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Haring painted a BMW Z1 at the Hans Mayer Gallery in Düsseldorf
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1989· 6 entries
Died 1989-01-01.
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“probably the best supporter I had in the art world.”
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Established the Keith Haring Foundation to provide funding to AIDS organizations and children's programs, as well as to maintain and distribute his artwork
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Haring designed T-shirts to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall riots
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Haring helped his family arrange his funeral
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Arman was killed in a car accident on his way to see Haring in Spain
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1988· 3 entries
Haring joined a select group of artists whose work has appeared on the label of Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine
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Haring became an important public advocate for AIDS awareness and education
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Haring wrote his obituary for Vogue magazine, and he paid homage to him with the painting A Pile of Crowns for Jean-Michel Basquiat (1988)
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1987· 2 entries
Haring painted a mural in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Point Breeze titled 'We the Youth' to commemorate the bicentennial of the United States Constitution
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Haring had exhibitions in Helsinki, Paris, and elsewhere
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1986· 4 entries
Three of Haring's sculptures were placed at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza outside the United Nations headquarters
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Opened the Pop Shop to make his art widely accessible through affordable merchandise
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With some accused him of commodifying his work
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“I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You)”
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1985· 4 entries
Haring took part in the Paris Biennial and he had his first solo museum exhibition at the CAPC musée d'art contemporain in Bordeaux
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And creating a poster for the 1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament
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Swatch introduced a line of watches designed by Haring
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By 1985, Haring began to travel more and lost interest in Dubose. "I was certainly unfaithful to Juan. … The fact is, I was bored with Juan's inability to do anything with himself.
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1984· 3 entries
The New York City Department of Sanitation asked Haring to design a logo for their anti-litter campaign
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Released a book titled Art in Transit, which featured photography of his subway drawings by Tseng Kwong Chi and an introduction by Henry Geldzahler
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Haring participated in the group show Arte di Frontiera: New York Graffiti in Italy
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1983· 1 entry
Haring contributed work to the Whitney Biennial and the São Paulo Biennial
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1982· 3 entries
Haring befriended pop artist Andy Warhol, who became his mentor and the inspiration for his 1986 Andy Mouse series
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Haring participated in documenta 7 in Kassel, where his works were exhibited alongside Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol
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Took part in documenta 7 in Kassel as well as Public Art Fund's Messages to the Public series in which he created work for a Spectacolor billboard in Times Square
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1981· 1 entry
Haring met 14-year-old graffiti artist Angel "LA II" Ortiz, who became his collaborator
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1980· 2 entries
Haring also began organizing exhibitions at Club 57, which were filmed by his close friend, photographer Tseng Kwong Chi
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Created headlines from word juxtaposition and attached hundreds to lamp-posts around Manhattan
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1979· 1 entry
Haring met photographer Tseng Kwong Chi in the East Village
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1978· 4 entries
Studied at School of Visual Arts (1978).
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To study painting at the School of Visual Arts
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“I am becoming much more aware of movement. The importance of movement is intensified when a painting becomes a performance. The performance (the act of painting) becomes as important as the resulting painting.”
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Haring wrote in his journal: "I am becoming much more aware of movement
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1976· 1 entry
Studied at Art Institute of Pittsburgh (1976).
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1958· 1 entry
Born 1958-05-04.
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