Keith Haring: 1978-1982
Brooklyn Museum, new york
on now until July 2nd, 2012
The first large-scale exhibition that explores the early career of one of America’s best-known artists of the twentieth-century, ‘Keith Haring: 1978-1982′ chronicles the period in the artist’s career from when he left his Pennsylvania home and arrived in New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts. It traces the development of his studio practice and production of public and political street art, whereby he immersed himself into New York’s downtown culture, befriending other creatives such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf.
This show explores haring’s role as a curator and facilitator of performances and exhibitions of work by other artists, often pursuing unconventional locations for these presentations that usually only lasted one night. the flyers that he created to advertise these events now remaining as documentation of his curatorial practice.
