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Hurley Is Collaborating with Keith Haring Estate on Capsule Collection

Hurley Is Collaborating with Keith Haring Estate on Capsule Collection

Published by Jenni Sidey

The streetwear brand Hurley, which is known for surf and swim apparel, has released a capsule collection inspired by Keith Haring, one of the most recognizable and oft-licensed American artists. The collection includes cotton T-shirts, board shirts, bucket and trucker hats, bathing suits, and sweatshirts for men and women, with prices ranging from $28 (a black mesh trucker hat featuring one of Haring’s blue dancing figures astride a two-legged figure that looks like some kind of dolphin/human hybrid, standing in the waves) to $100 (a reversible one-piece women’s bathing suit featuring dancing daisies on one side and an allover flower print on the other). Related Articles Haring died of AIDS-related causes in 1990, at age 31. By then he was internationally known for his graffiti-inspired artworks and recurring motifs like the radiant baby, dancing figures, barking dogs, UFOs, and pulsing hearts. His subway drawings, done in white chalk on the black paper filling empty frames where advertisement were placed, became so popular that collectors and fans would follow Haring onto trains, snatching the drawings as soon …

Two Rare Keith Haring Art Cars to Be Exhibited in NYC this Month

Two Rare Keith Haring Art Cars to Be Exhibited in NYC this Month

Published by Jenni Sidey

Although work by graffiti-turned-gallery artist Keith Haring (1958–90) remained highly collectible after his death of AIDS at 31, there has been a surge of interest in it of late, with pieces by him bringing millions at auction, a traveling exhibition in 2023, and collaborations by the estate with such popular brands as Polaroid, Converse, Swatch, Casetify, and Uniqlo. Now, according to a report in Hypebeast, two of the four automobiles that Haring decorated in the last 10 years of his life—a 1963 Buick Special and a 1971 Land Rover Defender III—will be the highlight of “Keith Haring: In the Street,” a nine-day exhibition in New York City. Related Articles Both automobiles are painted top to bottom in Haring’s rapidly outlined images of barking dogs, babies, snakes, mushroom clouds, and other elements from his personal visual language. They are the property of car collector Larry Warsh, whose curatorial platform, CART Department, “a cultural platform devoted to the automobile as an artistic and social artifact,” also owns Free Parking, the exhibition space where the cars will be …

Keith Haring at the Brant Foundation: 8 Key Works

Keith Haring at the Brant Foundation: 8 Key Works

Published by José Betancourt

Next week, an exhibition of Keith Haring‘s artwork from the early 1980s opens at the Brant Foundation in New York’s East Village, the same neighborhood where the Pop and graffiti artist first made a name for himself. The tight date range was very intentional. Co-curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer told ARTnews that they wanted to focus on Haring’s formative years, when he was he was still so connected to New York. “It is remarkable when you read his diary,” Hofbauer notes, “how much he was on the move. By the mid ’80s he was constantly talking about traveling the world—Tokyo, Paris, Amsterdam. In the early ’80s, he was still formalizing his vocabulary. Around ’85 he added a new vocabulary, related to the ongoing AIDS epidemic.” Haring died from AIDS-related causes in 1990. Buchhart and Hofbauer are well-versed in this era of art history. They curated “Basquiat X Warhol” at the Brant Foundation in 2024 and Buchhart organized a Basquiat solo show there in 2019. Their Keith Haring show includes nearly 50 artworks, many …