Nevertheless, Haring’s art is strong enough to justify a good, long look by the museum. Part of Haring’s appeal is that his story has a blue-collar, up-from-obscurity quality that seems almost mythic ...

During a 1981 visit to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson in upstate New York, Keith Haring took a magic marker to professor Tom Wolf's office wall and drew five crawling babies — figures that became ...

It was 1982, and 24-year-old artist Keith Haring was being handcuffed and escorted out of the New York City subway, where he'd been drawing cartoonish chalk figures on the walls before ads could be ...

Keith Haring was an artist and a major voice in early HIV/AIDS awareness in the '80s. With his signature visual style, pieces like "Stop AIDS" remain highly recognizable and vital to this day. Keith ...

ONE AFTERNOON in late spring of 1981, I was taking a lunch break from my new job as exhibition coordinator for the now defunct Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. The IAUS, a think tank ...

As the November marquee auction season approaches and the major auction houses start to build momentum by revealing their top lots, the search for who has consigned what and why begins. Provenance, as ...

When artist Keith Haring created chalk drawings in New York subway stations early in his career in the 1980s, he never signed them. Even so, New Yorkers quickly recognized his distinctive style.

In the early 1980s, celebrated street artist Keith Haring began painting New York City’s subway stations with his characteristically bold, two-dimensional figures. His style—which featured the flat ...

“Keith Haring: The Political Line,” the exhibition at the de Young Museum, explores social activism in Haring’s work, emphasizing his street-artist origins as a defining factor in the shaping of his ...

Keith Haring was an artist and a major voice in early HIV/AIDS awareness in the '80s. With his signature visual style, pieces like "Stop AIDS" remain highly recognizable and vital to this day. Keith ...