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 ...

As a scholar of visual culture and social movements, questions like these frame so much of my research and teaching. Yet in my classes on art and the AIDS crisis, one artist has rarely (if ever) been ...

Between 1980-1990, Keith Haring established himself as an art world celebrity and pop culture icon with a distinctive and instantly recognizable style that came to define the decade. This new ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. If Keith Haring’s featureless outlined figures, “radiant baby” and symbols ...

Keith Haring will forever be remembered as a prolific artist who shirked convention and elitism to bring art to the streets and its people. Lesser known is just how much Haring’s HIV diagnosis in 1987 ...

In the spring of 1989, just after turning 31 and about 10 months before he died, Keith Haring drew a self-portrait in black ink on white paper. It says a lot about the way he approached his work — ...

Keith Haring’s New York. A new biography tells the story of not only Haring’s life but also the exhilarating world of New York art in the 1970s and 80s. We are attracted to the biographies of artists ...

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 ...