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Keith Haring was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1958. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like New Galerie in Paris and will be on exhibit at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis on April 27, 2024. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Broad have featured Keith Haring's work in the past.Keith Haring's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 3 USD to 6,537,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 6,537,500 USD for UNTITLED, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2017. Keith Haring has been featured in articles for The New York Times, Telegraph and ArtsJournal. The most recent article is Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody written for e-flux in April 2024. The artist died in 1990.
Three decades after his death, his work is still sold on products and in stores. But his concept of public art is most powerfully preserved on the street.
On April 27, the Walker Art Center will open Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody, a major exhibition on the life and work of Keith Haring (US, 1958–1990).
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.. Known for his chalk drawings on subway station walls and public murals, Keith Haring left his mark on nearly anything he could find—even the bodies of other artists—all painted with detail and finesse...
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..Twenty years after his death, this is a rare and in-depth look at the prolific early years that established Haring’s language as an artist, his politics and social conscience, and his open homosexuality...
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..While Haring's animated contours and a pop-graffiti aesthetic are most closely associated with his signature iconography such as the radiant baby and barking dog, many of the underlying themes of his work...
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..Haring's meticulously angular pen and ink compositions and loose, gestural graphite lines exemplify the opposing forces at play that would later become the enduring tenets of his work...
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