All posts tagged: Keith Haring

46 Museum Shows and Biennials to See This Summer

46 Museum Shows and Biennials to See This Summer

Published by Jenni Sidey

Spectacle in all its many forms is the big theme of the summer season, when big, glitzy projects will take over museums across the globe. Laure Prouvost has been given a wide playing field for a show about quantum physics at Paris’s Grand Palais, while Carsten Höller is planning a vast exhibition for Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, the details of which he has largely kept secret. Meanwhile, Tomás Saraceno will bring his monumental sculptures to Munich’s Haus der Kunst; a permanent land artwork by him is also going on view in his native Argentina. He is hardly the only artist considering the land and all the histories embedded within it. Carolina Caycedo is having a show at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, while the National Gallery of Canada is surveying contemporary Indigenous artists from Inuit Nunaat, Sápmi, and Denendeh. This is not exactly a new theme, of course, and Ana Mendieta was considering it before many others. Tate Modern is giving her a proper retrospective, in one of the season’s most …

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 …

AIDS Cut Their Lives Shorts. Now, Their Art Lives on in Fashion.

AIDS Cut Their Lives Shorts. Now, Their Art Lives on in Fashion.

Published by José Betancourt

The story goes that in 1986, the same year he was diagnosed with the then-deadly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Robert Mapplethorpe signed his first licensing agreement, with the tableware producer Swid Powell. The deal was to produce a series of dinner plates adorned with versions of his distinctive black-and-white studio photographs of lilies and orchids. Mapplethorpe had by then earned a public reputation as a queer bad boy, best known for photographs depicting hardcore BDSM gay sex in a solemn studio setting. His forays into mass culture had been limited to photographing album covers (for the rock band Television and avant-garde composer Philip Glass, as well as his best friend and roommate, Patti Smith). For his entry into the homeware market, though, he chose his most palatable image series, flowers, which he had started photographing as early as 1977. In the face of death, why the sudden turn to merchandising—this altogether different way for an artist to leave his mark on the world? Related Articles Coincidentally or otherwise, it was gay American men who largely …