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 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 ...

Keith Haring’s “Unfinished Painting” is known as a powerful social commentary on the AIDS crisis, which cut short the lives of many people in the gay community, including Haring himself. But years ...

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 — ...

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 and Pierre Alechinsky’s original works are on display together at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale in “Confrontation: Keith Haring and Pierre Alechinsky,” an exhibit on view until October 2 ...

Social activism was built into the art of Keith Haring—one of the most widely recognized modern artists of our time. From promoting AIDS awareness to being vocally against apartheid and other issues, ...

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 ...