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 ...

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 ...

This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers Keith Haring’s rollicking murals, John Duff’s gritty inventiveness and a ...

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, ...

Installation view of Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody at the Broad Museum, Los Angeles (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — A deadly disease, human technology threatening to end the ...

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 ...

In the 1980s, Keith Haring's cartoon-like images were everywhere — from t-shirts and New York City streets to art galleries around the world. His figures of dancers, hearts, babies and dogs remain pop ...

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 ...

Keith Haring transformed street art into a global visual language of activism, urgency, and hope. This video explores how Haring used bold imagery, public space, and political conviction to challenge ...

“Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody” is a particularly apt name for the new traveling exhibition of the late artist’s work, which is on display through Sept. 8 at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Keith Haring made being a nerd cool. The guy from Kutztown, Pa., dressed like an 11-year-old, in T-shirts and chunky sneakers. He loved sci-fi and cartoons. Skinny, prematurely balding, fond of huge ...