With recent biographies of Madonna and Lou Reed, and memoirs such as Ada Calhoun’s “St. Marks Is Dead,” writers are avidly trading on nostalgia for the East Village scene of the 1980s, conjuring spray ...

Since he first rose to fame in the 1980s, there has been much mythologizing about SVA alumnus Keith Haring. But a new book, released last week, takes the deepest dive yet into the history and legacy ...

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 ...

I began reading Brad Gooch’s biography of Keith Haring with the last chapter, on Haring’s untimely death from AIDS. I don’t usually read biographies out of order, but since I (like many) knew all too ...

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Keith Haring, "A Book Full of Fun" (1989), paint on plywood, 71 x 107 x 1 3/4 inches (© Keith Haring Foundation; photo by Tim Schoon, courtesy the Stanley Museum of Art at University of Iowa) Keith ...

Keith Haring is to art what “Happy Birthday” is to the American songbook: a standard whose ubiquity hasn’t quite dulled its ritual magic. Since his death in 1990, Haring’s iconography—radiant crawling ...

To My Friends at Horn is a reminder that artists do not exist in a vacuum and context illuminates the impact of the artist and activist. Keith Haring, "A Book Full of Fun" (1989), acrylic on plywood, ...

Keith Haring had a peculiar habit. “Even at the height of his fame, (Haring) would often introduce himself as Keith from Kutztown,” said Dr. Brendan Strasser, an archivist with the Kutztown Area ...