In 1985, police were acquitted in the killing of a graffiti artist and painter, a grisly act that galvanized the city’s art ...

The artist Keith Haring brought immense energy and creativity to his efforts to raise public awareness about HIV in the late 1980s. Prior to his death from AIDS in 1990, Haring funded advocacy ...

Keith Haring paints a mural in Barcelona, a few months before his death due to medical complications from AIDS. Silvia T. Colmero Keith Haring was another American artist known for incorporating the ...

Keith Haring historical marker dedicated in Kutztown Those behind the marker’s installation reflected on Haring’s legacy during a ceremony Friday at the Kutztown Area Historical Society.

Keith Haring, “Ignorance = Fear, Silence = Death” (n.d.), offset lithograph, 24 x 43 inches (60.96 x 109.22 cm); Collection of the Keith Haring Foundation, New York, NY (© Keith Haring ...

Indeed, Haring’s Carmine Street Pool Mural celebrated New York’s LGBTQIA+ community at a time when NYPD clashed with ACT UP, and “Silence=Death” posters could be found on countless street ...

Decades after his peak, Haring's work is now on display at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. "He was always about making sure people had access to his art and that ability to connect is very ...

Also in 1989, Haring painted a famous piece of protest art called Ignorance=Fear, Silence=Death, a commentary on the HIV/AIDS crisis. That iconic work, on loan from the Keith Haring Foundation, is ...

In addition to A Book Full of Fun, the new exhibition will feature several other works on loan from the Keith Haring Foundation, including Totem (1988) and Ignorance = Fear, Silence = Death (1989).

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.