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 ...

“Radiant” is an illuminating biography of the talented artist Keith Haring, who made his indelible mark during the 1980s before dying young of AIDS. Brad Gooch, biographer of poets Frank O’Hara and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Keith Haring at work on the 'A Book Full of Fun' mural at Ernest Horn ...

Like Van Gogh, it's an artistic style you recognize immediately. His images speak their own language, canvases with cartoon-inspired barking dogs, flying saucers, hearts, pyramids, ziggurat stairways, ...

Keith Haring was born in a White, working-class town in Eastern Pennsylvania. After briefly attending a commercial art school in Pittsburgh, he studied semiotics at the School of the Visual Arts in ...

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 ...