I went to the Keith Haring exhibit today at the De Young museum

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Keith Allen Haring was an American artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth, death, sexuality, and war. Haring's work was often heavily political and his imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century.

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[telemann.livejournal.com]

Very cool. Mr. Haring decorated The New York CIty Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, and it's really cool stuff. But I think the paintings had to be restored a few years ago.He kept journals most of his life, and they have been published by Penguin Classics.

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He also apparently did a mural in a daycare center in SF but I have no idea if it's still there.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

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[planet-x-zero.livejournal.com]

Haring was an activist as much as an artist. I had a teacher at SVA that had him as a student about ten years earlier. She said he never stopped drawing, either in class or out of it, he always had a sketch notebook. She said he had a kind of manic energy about working on his art.

A few of his original murals have been restored in NYC, others lost to time.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Amazing stuff. He is featured in the AIDS pavilion at Grace Cathedral in SF:

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

Wonderful stuff. Thank you for sharing it! I bet the exhibit was amazing.