Colab is the commonly used abbreviation of the New York City artists' group Collaborative Projects , which was formed after a series of open meetings between artists of various disciplines.
82-551: The Times Square Show was an influential collaborative, self-curated, and self-generated art exhibition held by New York artists' group Colab (aka Collaborative Projects, Inc) in Times Square in a shuttered massage parlor at 201 W. 41st and 7th Avenue during the entire month of June in 1980. The Times Square Show was largely inspired by the more radical Colab show The Real Estate Show (that occurred in January 1980), but unlike it,
164-634: A Fluxus -inspired Gift Shop area, that would come to be called The A. More Store , that sold low-priced multiples made by the participating Colab artists. Included were Bobby G's Money Talks pins, Becky Howland's Love Canal Potatoes , Kiki Smith ’s Bloody-Hand Ashtrays , Joseph Nechvatal 's Nuclear War Table Placemats , Charlie Ahearn ’s Three Card Monte Times Square Advertisement poster, Robin Winters’s Plaster Colab Portraits and Jenny Holzer’s Manifesto posters. The A. More Store also appeared shortly after on Broome Street with
246-624: A banner advertisement above a subway entrance in Times Square that showed a female embracing a male's legs, blacking-out the first letter so that it essentially read " hardón " instead of "Chardón," a French clothing brand. He later used other forms of commercial material to spread his work and messages. This included mass-producing buttons and magnets to hand out and working on top of subway ads. In 1980, Haring began organizing exhibitions at Club 57 , which were filmed by his close friend, photographer Tseng Kwong Chi . In February 1981, Haring had his first solo exhibition at Westbeth Painters Space in
328-677: A first day cover of the United Nations stamp and an accompanying limited edition lithograph to commemorate 1985 as International Youth Year. He designed MTV set decorations and painted murals for various art institutions and nightclubs, such as the Palladium in Manhattan. In March 1985, Haring painted the walls of the Grande Halle de la Villette for the Biennale de Paris . In July 1985, he made
410-505: A 480-foot mural in Grant Park along with nearly 500 students. Three other Haring murals materialized in Chicago around the same time: two at Rush University Medical Center , the other at Wells Community Academy High School . The latter was completed days before Haring's arrival in Chicago, as a sort of welcome. According to Zucker, Haring sent the school a design template for the mural, which
492-505: A PhD candidate in twentieth-century American art at the University of Delaware, that ran from September 14th to December 8th in 2012. The Times Square Show Revisited exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue and comprehensive website, which includes extensive interviews with the participants in the original exhibition. Elena Martinique writes in WideWalls magazine that The Times Square Show
574-549: A Time... mural in May 1989. In June 1989, Haring painted his Tuttomondo mural on the rear wall of the convent of the Sant'Antonio Abate church in Pisa . Haring criticized the avoidance of social issues such as AIDS through a piece called Rebel with Many Causes (1989) that revolves around a theme of "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil". During the last week of November 1989, Haring painted
656-401: A building on New York's Lower East Side and opened it as a collectively run cultural center. ABC No Rio was passed on to successive managements until today it is an anarchist cultural center run by a collective with close ties to the publishing group Autonomedia ." In 2016 A Book About Colab (and Related Activities) was published by Printed Matter, Inc . It was edited by Max Schumann,
738-609: A catalyst for exploring new political-artistic directions. The Times Square Show' s historic significance was established in The Times Square Show Revisited exhibition held at The Hunter College Art Galleries that was curated by Shawna Cooper, post-war art historian and graduate of the Hunter College Master’s Program in Art History, in association with Karli Wurzelbacher, also a Hunter alumnae and
820-475: A large open exhibition near the center of New York's entertainment (and pornography) district ( Times Square ) that was put on with Bronx-based Fashion Moda . Seed money from the first Colab (Green Corp.) workshop grant through Center for New Art Inc. led to the creation of the Colab artists' TV series on Manhattan Cable (1978–1984) that included All Color News , Potato Wolf and Red Curtain , and New Cinema -
902-521: A monumental installation drawing in the basement, Coleen Fitzgibbon and Robin Winters showed their collaboration Gun, Money, Plate wallpaper, Cara Perlman showed her large portrait paintings on paper, Jenny Holzer showed hand painted enamel on metal signs, like Living: Many Dogs Run Wild in the City , Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf showed their collaboration video The Sparkle End and David Hammons showed
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#1732851844002984-587: A mural at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena for "A Day Without Art". The mural was commemorated on December 1, the second annual AIDS Awareness Day. He commemorated the mural on December 1, World AIDS Day , and told the Los Angeles Times : "My life is my art, it's intertwined. When AIDS became a reality in terms of my life, it started becoming a subject in my paintings. The more it affected my life
1066-504: A painting for the Live Aid concert at J.F.K. Stadium in Philadelphia. Additionally, he painted a car owned by art dealer Max Protetch to be auctioned with proceeds donated to African famine relief. Haring continued to be politically active as well by designing Free South Africa posters in 1985, and creating a poster for the 1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament . In
1148-474: A portrait of Haring and his partner Juan Dubose in 1983. Through Warhol, Haring became friends with Grace Jones , Francesco Clemente , and Yoko Ono . He also formed friendships with George Condo , Jean-Charles de Castelbajac , and Claude Picasso . Haring met accessories designer Bobby Breslau in the early 1980s. Haring looked to Breslau for guidance and called him his "Jewish mother." Breslau introduced Haring to his friend Larry Levan , resident DJ at
1230-487: A restating of The A. More Store , a Colab-sponsored artists’ outlet for low-priced multiples from the early 1980s The selling exhibition included over 100 artworks from over 50 participating Colab members, including works on loan from historic A. More Stores . The first A. More Store evolved from the Gift Shop at the legendary Colab-organized The Times Square Show and appeared shortly after on Broome Street in 1980 with
1312-614: A result, Haring's works spread quickly and he became increasingly more recognizable. The cut-up technique in the writings of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin inspired Haring's work with lettering and words. In 1980, he created headlines from word juxtaposition and attached hundreds to lamp-posts around Manhattan. These included phrases like "Reagan Slain by Hero Cop" and "Pope Killed for Freed Hostage". That same year, as part of his participating in The Times Square Show with one of his earliest public projects, Haring altered
1394-508: A screening room on 8th Street and St. Mark's Place for new wave Super 8 films transferred to video and projected on an Advent screen - the continued publication of X Motion Picture Magazine (1979) (a No Wave band benefit concert for X Motion Picture Magazine included The Contortions , Boris Policeband , Theoretical Girls , DNA , Terminal and Erasers ); support and inspiration for the ABC No Rio cultural center (1980-82 - ongoing) that
1476-569: A spray of broken Night Train fortified wine bottles. John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres did live plaster casting sculptures of people off the street and occasionally made castings on the sidewalk, Jack Smith performed in a haze of hemp smoke in his Exotic Landlordism of the World one-man performance, Diane Torr (with filmmaker Ruth Peyser) did an art performance with a rubber inflatable porno doll and sex toys , and Sophie VDT and Mary Lemley organized fashion shows. Also, The Times Square Show had
1558-647: A very young age, spending time with his father producing creative drawings. His early influences included Walt Disney cartoons, Dr. Seuss , Charles Schulz , and the Looney Tunes characters in The Bugs Bunny Show . Haring's family attended the United Church of Christ . In his early teenage years, he was involved with the Jesus movement . He later hitchhiked across the country, selling T-shirts he made featuring
1640-467: A yellow background. The colors were a representation of the German flag and symbolized the hope of unity between East and West Germany . Haring began collaborating with Grace Jones , whom he had met through Andy Warhol, for an interview magazine shoot in 1984. Haring painted a skirt for Jones to wear in her music video " I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You) " (1986) and he was the assistant director for
1722-577: Is intensified when a painting becomes a performance. The performance (the act of painting) becomes as important as the resulting painting." In December 2007, an area of the American Textile Building in the TriBeCa neighborhood of New York City was discovered to have a Haring painting from 1979. Haring first received public attention with his graffiti art in subways, where he created white chalk drawings on black, unused advertisement backboards in
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#17328518440021804-771: The Tower mural on an 88-foot-high (27 m) exterior stairwell at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital . While in Belgium for his exhibition at Gallery 121, Haring painted a mural at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp . That same year, Haring was also invited by artist Roger Nellens to paint a mural at his Casino Knokke . While working there, Haring stayed in Le Dragon , a monster-shaped guest house owned by Nellens which had been designed by artist Niki de Saint Phalle . With
1886-480: The Foundation for AIDS Research . The act was documented in the 1991 film Madonna: Truth or Dare . Haring's work was featured in several of Red Hot Organization 's efforts to raise money for AIDS and AIDS awareness, specifically its first two albums, Red Hot + Blue (1990) and Red Hot + Dance (1992), the latter of which used Haring's work on its cover. His art remains on display worldwide. In 1991, Haring
1968-530: The Grateful Dead and anti- Nixon designs. He graduated from Kutztown Area High School in 1976. He studied commercial art from 1976 to 1978 at Pittsburgh's Ivy School of Professional Art , but eventually lost interest, inspired to focus on his own art after reading The Art Spirit (1923) by Robert Henri . Haring had a maintenance job at the Pittsburgh Arts and Crafts Center and was able to explore
2050-635: The Pop Shop as an extension of his work. His later work often conveyed political and societal themes—anti- crack , anti- apartheid , safe sex, homosexuality and AIDS—through his own iconography. Haring died of AIDS-related complications on February 16, 1990. In 2014, he was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk in San Francisco, a walk of fame noting LGBTQ people who have "made significant contributions in their fields". In 2019, he
2132-565: The Run-DMC single " Christmas In Hollis "; proceeds went to the Special Olympics . The image for the A Very Special Christmas compilation album consists of a typical Haring figure holding a baby. Its "Jesus iconography" is considered unusual in modern rock holiday albums. Also in 1987, Haring painted a mural in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Point Breeze titled 'We the Youth' to commemorate
2214-1050: The São Paulo Biennale in Brazil and the Whitney Biennial in New York. In April 1983, Haring was commissioned to paint a mural, Construction Fence , at the construction site of the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee . Later that year, Haring took part in the exhibition Urban Pulses: the Artist and the City in Pittsburgh by spray painting a room at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and creating an outdoor mural at PPG Place . In October 1983, Elio Fiorucci invited Haring to Milan to paint
2296-715: The Tony Shafrazi Gallery with his collaborator graffiti artist Angel "LA II" Ortiz . That year, he was in several group exhibitions including Fast at the Alexander Milliken Gallery in New York. Haring designed the poster for the 1983 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. In February 1983, Haring had a solo exhibition at the Fun Gallery in the East Village, Manhattan . That year, Haring participated in
2378-621: The West Village . In November 1981, Hal Bromm Gallery in Tribeca presented the artist's first solo exhibition at a commercial gallery. In January 1982, Haring was the first of twelve artists organized by Public Art Fund to display work on the computer-animated Spectacolor billboard in Times Square. That summer, Haring created his first major outdoor mural on the Houston Bowery Wall on
2460-757: The Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial , and the Venice Biennale . The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997. Haring's popularity grew from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways —chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images on blank black advertising spaces. After gaining public recognition, he created colorful larger scale murals, many commissioned. He produced more than 50 public artworks between 1982 and 1989, many of them created voluntarily for hospitals, day care centers and schools. In 1986, he opened
2542-656: The centennial anniversary of the Statue of Liberty 's arrival in the United States. Later that month, he created his Crack Is Wack mural in East Harlem, visible from New York's FDR Drive . It was originally considered as vandalism by the New York Police Department and Haring was arrested. But after local media outlets picked up the story, Haring was released on a lesser charge. While in jail, Haring's original work
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2624-514: The '80s . This article and Colab's DIY self-promotion drew a wide variety of audiences curious see an art show in the sordid Times Square area. The Times Square Show was an open access art show open twenty-four hours a day for thirty days. Most of the artists who participated in The Times Square Show came from Colab , White Columns , Fashion Moda or The Harlem Workshop. There were films, videos, poetry, music, and art performances and
2706-491: The Arts (NEA) Workshop Grant through Center for New Art Activities, Inc., a small not-for-profit organization formed in 1974. In 1978, Collaborative Projects was incorporated as a not-for-profit of its own. By raising its own sources of funding, Colab was in control of its own exhibitions and cable TV shows. Advocating a form of cultural activism that was purely artist driven, the group created artworks, negotiated venues, curated shows, and engaged in discourse that responded to
2788-651: The East Village. They became friends and he documented much of Haring's career. In 1980, Haring met and began collaborating with graffiti artist Angel "LA II" Ortiz . Haring recounted: "We just immediately hit it off. It's as if we'd known each other all our lives. He's like my little brother." Ortiz's artistry formed an important part of Haring's work that had gone unacknowledged by the art establishment. Following Haring's death, Ortiz stopped receiving credit and payment for his part in Haring's work. According to Montez, author of
2870-717: The February 1984 issue of Vanity Fair , and he was featured in the October 1984 issue of Newsweek . In 1984, the New York City Department of Sanitation asked Haring to design a logo for their anti-litter campaign. Haring participated in the Venice Biennale . He was invited to create temporary murals at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales . During his visit to Australia, he painted
2952-583: The Keith Haring Foundation to provide funding and imagery to AIDS organizations and children's programs. The foundation's stated goal is to keep his wishes and expand his legacy by providing grants and funding to non-profit organizations that educate disadvantaged youths and inform the public about HIV and AIDS. It also shares his work and contains information about his life. The foundation also supports arts and educational institutions by funding exhibitions, educational programs, and publications. In 2010,
3034-460: The Lodge Gallery, and Cuchifritos Gallery/Essex Street Market. The Real Estate Show Revisited . That year Art International Radio also featured an interview and conversation between Jane Dickson , Coleen Fitzgibbon , and Becky Howland about Colab and the 1980 The Real Estate Show which birthed the ABC No Rio cultural center. From April 15 to May 15, 2016, Printed Matter, Inc presented
3116-773: The Lower East Side. In his paintings, he often used lines to show energy and movement. Haring would often work quickly, trying to create as much work as possible—sometimes completing as many as 40 paintings in a day. One of his works, Untitled (1982), depicts two figures with a radiant heart-love motif, which critics have interpreted as a bold nod to homosexual love and a significant cultural statement. In 1982, 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 . In October 1982, he had an exhibition at
3198-573: The Paradise Garage. Breslau inspired Haring to work with leather hides and he was the manager of the Pop Shop until his death in 1987. Art dealer Yves Arman was Haring's close friend, and Haring was the godfather of his daughter. Haring said Arman was "probably the best supporter I had in the art world." In 1989, Arman was killed in a car accident on his way to see Haring in Spain. In 1988, Gil Vazquez
3280-524: The School of Visual Arts, he became friends with classmates Kenny Scharf (his one time roommate), Samantha McEwen, and John Sex . Eventually, he befriended Jean-Michel Basquiat , who would write his SAMO graffiti around the campus. When Basquiat died in 1988, 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). In 1979, Haring met photographer Tseng Kwong Chi in
3362-581: The West Village. In September 1987, he painted a temporary mural, Detroit Notes , at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan . The work reveals a darker phase in Haring's style, which Cranbrook Art Museum Director Andrew Blauvelt speculates foreshadowed the confirmation of his AIDS diagnosis. Haring designed the cover for the 1987 benefit album A Very Special Christmas and
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3444-437: The arrival of Pop Shop, his work had begun reflecting more socio-political themes, such as anti - Apartheid , AIDS awareness, and the crack cocaine epidemic . From 1982 to 1989, Haring was featured in more than 100 solo and group exhibitions and produced more than 50 public artworks in dozens of charities, hospitals, day care centers, and orphanages. Haring was openly gay and used his work to advocate for safe sex . He
3526-442: The art of Jean Dubuffet , Jackson Pollock , and Mark Tobey . He was highly influenced around this time by a 1977 retrospective of Pierre Alechinsky 's work and by a lecture that the sculptor Christo gave in 1978. From Alechinsky's work, he felt encouraged to create large images that featured writing and characters. From Christo, Haring was introduced to ways of incorporating the public into his art. His first significant exhibition
3608-410: The audience would sometimes get into fights over whether it was a good performance or a bad performance. Some Colab artists would stay overnight. Tom Otterness 's half-skeleton/half-man painted plaster sculpture Symbolic Anatomy (1980) was placed in the front window next to where Jean-Michel Basquiat wrote Free Sex over the doorway (later somebody else spray-painted over it). Justen Ladda created
3690-429: The barriers between high and low art." The Pop Shop remained open after Haring's death until 2005, with profits benefiting the Keith Haring Foundation. The Pop Shop was not Haring's only effort to make his work widely accessible. Throughout his career, Haring made art in subways and on billboards. His attempts to make his work relatable can also be seen in his figures' lack of discernable ages, races, or identities. By
3772-539: The bicentennial of the United States Constitution . Originally intended as a placeholder, a new rowhouse was never built and the lot became a park. The mural underwent a major restoration in 2013 and is Haring's longest standing public mural at its original location. In 1988, Haring joined a select group of artists whose work has appeared on the label of Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine. In January 1988, he traveled to Japan to open Pop Shop Tokyo; it closed in
3854-502: The book Keith Haring's Line: Race and the Performance of Desire , the Keith Haring Foundation and the art world have since made strides to rectify Ortiz's erasure. By the early 1980s, Haring had established friendships with fellow emerging artists Fab 5 Freddy and Futura 2000 , and singer Madonna . In 1982, Haring befriended Andy Warhol, who became his mentor and later the theme of his 1986 Andy Mouse series. Warhol also created
3936-532: The consent of both the designer and the owner, Haring painted a fresco mural along an interior balcony and stairway. Haring designed a carousel for André Heller 's Luna Luna , an ephemeral amusement park in Hamburg from June to August 1987 with rides designed by renowned contemporary artists. In August 1987, Haring painted a large mural at the Carmine Street Recreation Center's outdoor pool in
4018-449: The director of Printed Matter, and contained a Foreword and Afterword by art writer and Colab member Walter Robinson . The book traces the output of Collaborative Projects from the late 1970s through the mid 1980s and a testimonial about their particular practice of collaboration, collectivity, and social engagement, while reflecting an iconic period of NYC cultural history. In keeping with the democratic "by and for artists" ethos of Colab,
4100-410: The foundation partnered with the AIDS Service Center NYC to open the Keith Haring ASC Harlem Center to provide HIV peer education and access to care services in Harlem. As a celebration of his life, Madonna declared that the final American date of her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour would be a benefit concert for Haring's memory. The more than $ 300,000 the show made from ticket sales was donated to
4182-525: The more it affected my work." From Pasadena, Haring flew to Atlanta for the opening of his dual show with photographer Herb Ritts at the Fay Gold Gallery on December 2. In 1990, Haring painted a BMW Z1 at the Hans Mayer Gallery in Düsseldorf. He traveled to Paris for what would be his last exhibition, Keith Haring 1983 , at Galerie 1900-2000/La Galerie de Poche in January 1990. On February 16, 1990, Haring died of AIDS -related complications at his LaGuardia Place apartment in Greenwich Village . He
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#17328518440024264-417: The no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s ). The New York art world first heard of The Times Square Show in the summer of 1980 through Colab's advertising on television and on the giant Spectacolor digital board in Times Square, made possible by Colab member Jane Dickson . Colab made three thirty-second TV spots that ran on Channel 5 . The eccentric performer Jack Smith was featured in one of these ads that
4346-448: The original Times Square Show (1980). Times Square Show Revisited was the first focused assessment of the landmark exhibition organized by the artist group Collaborative Projects, Inc. In 2013, an exhibition workshop entitled XFR STN (Transfer Station) was held at the New Museum . In early 2014, there were four concurrent art exhibitions in New York City around The Real Estate Show : at James Fuentes Gallery, ABC No Rio ,
4428-402: The permanent Keith Haring Mural at Collingwood Technical College in Melbourne. That year, Haring also painted murals at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and in Rio de Janeiro. Later that year, he designed the stage set for the production of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane 's Secret Pastures at the Brooklyn Academy of Music . Haring was commissioned by the United Nations to create
4510-415: The political themes and predicaments of their time, among them the recessions of the 1970s, the Reagan era of budget cuts and nuclear armament, the housing crisis and gentrification in New York City, and other pressing social issues. In order to become a member, an artist had to attend three consecutive meetings. Artists who proposed artistic projects for funding needed at least two Colab members involved in
4592-399: The poster for the 1986 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. The poster was also used for the 1986 Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival in Detroit . In April 1986, Pop Shop opened in Soho, selling shirts, posters, and other items showing Haring's work. This made Haring's work readily accessible to purchase at reasonable prices. Having achieved what he wanted, which was "getting the work out to
4674-696: The project. From November 1978, different artist members organized and installed original one-off group shows in their own studios or other temporary sites, such as The Batman Show , (591 Broadway 1979), Income and Wealth Show (5 Bleecker Street Store 1979), Doctors and Dentists Show (591 Broadway 1979), The Manifesto Show (5 Bleecker Street Store 1979), The Dog Show (591 Broadway 1979), Just Another Asshole Show (5 Bleecker Street Store), The Real Estate Show (Delancey Street, Jan. 1980), Jay Street Film Shows (1979), Exhibit A (93 Grand Street, 1979), Island of Negative Utopia ( The Kitchen , 1984) and The Times Square Show (201 W 41st, June 1980):
4756-405: The public at large," Haring completely stopped drawing in the subways. He also stopped because people were taking the subway drawings and selling them. Some criticized Haring for commercializing his work. Asked about this, Haring said, "I could earn more money if I just painted a few things and jacked up the price. My shop is an extension of what I was doing in the subway stations, breaking down
4838-524: The publication places this material alongside newly solicited texts from many of the group’s members – a mix of reflections and anecdotes, statements, manifestos, and excerpts from the ‘Colab Annual Report’, which provide a close perspective on the meaning of Colab for those who came into its orbit. In 2011, Printed Matter, Inc. presented an exhibition entitled A Show about Colab (and Related Activities) . In 2012, The Hunter College Art Galleries presented Times Square Show Revisited , an in-depth look at
4920-420: The show, often interviewing spectators and Andrea Callard , Tom Warren, Francine Keery, Teri Slotkin and Lisa Kahane photographed the show and performance events. The No wave rock band The Raybeats performed live there. Participating artists included: Colab Colab members came together as a collective in 1977, first using the name Green Corporation, and initially received a National Endowment for
5002-426: The spring of 1986, Haring had a solo museum exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and he painted a mural. In 1986, Haring also created public murals in the lobby and ambulatory care department of Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center on Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn. In June 1986, Haring created a 90-foot banner, CityKids Speak on Liberty , in conjunction with The CityKids Foundation to commemorate
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#17328518440025084-494: The stations. He considered the subways to be his "laboratory," a place where he could experiment and create his artwork and saw the black advertisement paper as a free space and "the perfect place to draw". The Radiant Baby, a crawling infant with emitting rays of light, became his most recognized symbol. He used it as his tag to sign his work while a subway artist. Symbols and images (such as barking dogs, flying saucers, and large hearts) became common in his work and iconography. As
5166-402: The subways, contrasting the rocketing prices for his work. Haring enjoyed giving his work away for free, often handing out free buttons and posters of his work. In 1984, he released a book titled Art in Transit , which featured photography by Tseng Kwong Chi and an introduction by Henry Geldzahler . Haring's swift rise to international celebrity status was covered by the media. His art covered
5248-412: The summer of 1988. In April 1988, Haring created a mural on the South Lawn for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll , which he donated to Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C. Late in the summer, Haring traveled to Düsseldorf for a show of his paintings and sculptures at the Hans Mayer Gallery. In December 1988, Haring's exhibition opened at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, which he stated
5330-599: The tag-line You won’t pay more at the A. More Store . Following The Times Square Show , other iterations of The A. More Store were presented at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Jack Tilton Gallery, White Columns , and Printed Matter, Inc . The Times Square Show also had a collectors’ night that invited the art world cognoscenti like Brooke Alexander Gallery , Mary Boone and Jeffrey Deitch . The art writers Richard Goldstein , Kim Levin and Lucy Lippard were among those who visited. Bobby G, Mathew Geller, Mitch Corber and Julie Harrison made videotapes inside and outside
5412-615: The tag-line “You won’t pay more at the A. More Store”. Other iterations of the store were later presented at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Jack Tilton Gallery, White Columns , and Printed Matter, Inc . The 2017 documentary film Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat by Sara Driver contains extensive coverage of Colab, The Real Estate Show , The Times Square Show and ABC No Rio through on-camera interviews with once Colab president Coleen Fitzgibbon and art critic Carlo McCormick . Keith Haring Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990)
5494-586: The video. He also body painted Jones for live performances at the Paradise Garage , and for her role of Katrina the Queen of The Vampires in the 1986 film Vamp . Haring collaborated with David Spada , a jewelry designer, to design the sculptural adornments for Jones. Haring also illustrated vinyl covers for various artists such as David Bowie 's " Without You " (1983), N.Y.C. Peech Boys ' Life Is Something Special (1983), Malcolm McLaren 's "Duck For The Oyster" (1983), and Sylvester 's " Someone Like You " (1986). Haring collaborated with Warhol to design
5576-442: The walls of his Fiorucci store. While Haring was in London for the opening of his exhibition at the Robert Fraser Gallery in October 1983, he met and began collaborating with choreographer Bill T. Jones . Haring used Jones' body as the canvas to paint from head to toe. Haring and Angel "LA II" Ortiz produced a T-shirt design for friends Willi Smith and Laurie Mallet's clothing label WilliWear Productions in 1984. After Haring
5658-467: Was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel,
5740-439: Was created as a result of The Real Estate Show ; support of Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine (1983), NightShift Theater 1979, Spanner Magazine (3 issues 1979), MWF Video Club (established in 1986) and Bomb Magazine (1981). Membership in Colab shifted and evolved over the years, and some members of the original group are still highly visible active making art. In 1980, artists emulating 1970s Puerto Rican activists seized
5822-434: Was created by Scott B and Beth B . Glenn O'Brien and Bomb magazine editor Betsy Sussler also appear in a video ad created by Coleen Fitzgibbon and Cara Perlman. Colab members also widely distributed street posters, placards, and flyers made by Colab artists. Also, Richard Goldstein wrote about The Times Square Show for the June 16th edition of The Village Voice a long article entitled The First Radical Art Show of
5904-545: Was cremated and his ashes were scattered in a field near Bowers, Pennsylvania , just south of his hometown of Kutztown. Three months after his death, Haring posthumously appeared in Rosa von Praunheim 's documentary film Silence = Death (1990) about gay artists in New York City fighting for the rights of people with AIDS. It was released on May 4, which would have been his 32nd birthday. Soon after moving to New York to study at
5986-592: Was diagnosed with HIV in 1987 and AIDS in the autumn of 1988. He used his imagery during the last years of his life to speak about his illness and to generate activism and awareness about AIDS. In 1987, Haring had exhibitions in Helsinki, Paris, and elsewhere. During his stay in Paris for the 10th anniversary exhibition of American artists at the Centre Georges Pompidou , Haring and his partner Juan Rivera painted
6068-552: Was executed by a fellow teacher, Tony Abboreno, an abstract artist , and Wells High School art students, but Haring gave it his final approval and signed it himself. For The Center Show , an exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots , Haring was invited by the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York to create a site-specific work. He chose the second-floor men's bathroom to paint his Once Upon
6150-610: Was his most important show to date. He felt he had something to prove because of his health condition and the deaths of his friends Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. In February 1989, Haring painted the Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA mural in the Barrio Chino neighborhood of Barcelona to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic. In May 1989, at the invitation of a teacher named Irving Zucker, Haring visited Chicago to paint
6232-705: Was in Pittsburgh Arts and Crafts Center in 1978. Haring moved to the Lower East Side of New York in 1978 to study painting at the School of Visual Arts . He also worked as a busboy during this time at the nightclub Danceteria . While attending school he studied semiotics with Bill Beckley and experimented with video and performance art. Haring was also highly influenced in his art by author William Burroughs . In 1978, Haring wrote in his journal: "I am becoming much more aware of movement. The importance of movement
6314-454: Was invited by a friend to visit Haring's Broadway studio. Haring and Vazquez became close friends and spent a great deal of time together. Before his death, Haring set up a foundation bearing his name. He appointed his assistant and studio manager Julia Gruen to be the executive director; she began working for him in 1984. Vazquez is the board president of the foundation, which is based at Haring's Broadway studio. In 1989, Haring established
6396-708: Was one of the inaugural 50 American "pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes" inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument in New York City's Stonewall Inn . Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania , on May 4, 1958. He was raised in Kutztown, Pennsylvania , by his mother, Joan Haring, and father, Allen Haring, an engineer and amateur cartoonist. He had three younger sisters, Kay, Karen and Kristen. He became interested in art at
6478-431: Was open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in what was then a Times Square full of porno theaters, peep shows, and red light establishments. In addition to experimental painting and sculpture, the exhibition incorporated music, fashion, and an ambitious program of performance and video. For many artists the exhibition served as a forum for the exchange of ideas, a testing-ground for social-directed figurative work in progress, and
6560-525: Was profiled in Paper magazine, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood reached out to editor-in-chief Kim Hastreiter to facilitate a meeting with Haring. Haring presented Westwood with two large sheets of drawings and she turned them into textiles for her Autumn/Winter 1983–84 Witches collection. Haring's friend Madonna wore a skirt from the collection, most notably in the music video her 1984 single " Borderline ." As Haring rose to stardom he continued to draw in
6642-480: Was the first art exhibition to overtly transcended the trappings of class and culture by bringing together people who would not necessarily come together under any other circumstances. The Times Square Show was featured in 2023 at the Centre Pompidou in a Nicolas Ballet curated No Wave exhibition entitled Who You Staring At: Culture visuelle de la scène no wave des années 1970 et 1980 ( Visual culture of
6724-560: Was vandalized. This mural is an example of Haring's use of consciousness raising rather than consumerism, "Crack is Wack" rather than " Coke is it ." He painted an updated version of the mural on the same wall in October 1986. On October 23, 1986, Haring created a mural on the Berlin Wall for the Checkpoint Charlie Museum . The mural was 300 meters (980 ft) long and depicted red and black interlocking human figures against
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