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 late 1980s Keith Haring’s work was ubiquitous to the point of being overwhelming. The fact that his style was widely ripped off only seemed to extend his reach. Haring-esque dancing figures and ...

Pop artist Keith Haring, who had long drawn and painted Mickey Mouse in his art, almost landed his dream deal with Walt Disney Studios, a new book has revealed. Gooch has revealed new information ...

Keith Haring has come home. A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum focuses on the late artist's work at the beginning of his career, from his arrival in New York in the late 1970s, through his rise ...

Keith Haring’s linework has graced subterranean tunnels and art’s loftiest exhibition halls. This month, however, marks his first museum retrospective in Los Angeles. “Keith Haring: Art Is for ...

Keith Haring is baring all. In a 1986 Annie Leibovitz photograph, the late pop artist, famous for his public art in 1980s New York City, stands in a studio space staged to look like a living room.

The mural would still be covered today if it weren't for Dutch graffiti artist Aileen Middel, who is also known as Mick La Rock. As a longtime fan of Haring, she was familiar with his work and ...

A newly rediscovered work — one left in a forgotten storage space for more than 30 years — by a long-famed artist is soon going under the hammer. Sotheby’s is set to auction off a five-panel Keith ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

Two figures outlined in yellow and emblazoned with blue X-signs derived from the Latin cross on their chests dance rhythmically despite conjoining at the head. The joyful one-headed duo erupt from a ...