Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keith Haring is to art what “Happy Birthday” is to the American songbook: a standard whose ubiquity hasn’t quite dulled its ritual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody,” opening May 27 at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, shows that the 1980s art star worked as if there were no tomorrow. By the time he died at age 31 in 1990, of ...

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, ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...