El libro de las pequeñas cosas de Nina is now available for purchase!!

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“Keith Haring 1978-1982” at the Brooklyn Museum
March 16 – July 8

 The Brooklyn Museum presents the first sweeping exhibition to explore the early career of art superstar Keith Haring, whose deceptively cheerful animated contours and pop-graffiti aesthetic contained radical attitudes towards gender, sexuality, and politics. SEE MORE

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Now online: complete 30-minute program includes time-lapse footage of Pop Shop ceiling installation

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In honor of World AIDS Day, the Keith Haring Foundation and PROPER ATTIRE® will be partnering for the third time to produce limited edition condoms once again. Launching December 1, 2011, the condoms will be available for purchase at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) as well as online at www.MOCA.org, www.ProperAttireCondoms.com and www.pop-shop.com, with proceeds from the sales benefiting Planned Parenthood Federation of America. 

The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988, which is observed every year on December 1st. World AIDS Day provides governments, national AIDS programs, faith organizations, community organizations, and individuals with an opportunity to raise awareness and focus attention on the global AIDS pandemic. The Keith Haring Foundation honors and remembers the persons who have died and are suffering from HIV/AIDS.

Keith’s Book of Life/ O Livro da Vida: click here

New York’s Museum of Modern Art will hang a 60 ft drawing (Untitled, 1982) on the second floor next week.

The second-floor galleries will be periodically reinstalled to reflect the depth and richness of the Museum’s collection, and to allow for varying approaches to the wide variety of art produced during the last 30 years so no end date as of now.

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Julia Gruen interview about Untitled, 1982
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Keith, 1986

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November 11, 2011
170 Central Park West, New York, NY
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Explore the story of New York and America in the newly designed Robert H. and Clarice Smith New York Gallery of American History, which focuses on New York’s seminal role in the founding era of the United States with New York Rising. Other highlights include
• Here is New York, a rotating selection of approximately 6,200 photographs taken by the people of New York City on September 11, 2001, and immediately afterward
• an original piece of ceiling from Keith Haring’s “Pop Shop”
• History Under Your Feet, an educational scavenger hunt for visitors. This permanent installation provides an illuminating overview of our diverse collections and orients visitors to the experiences waiting deeper in the Museum.

Keith Haring
October 14 – December 3, 2011
521 West 26th Street

Pace Prints, in cooperation with the Keith Haring Foundation, is pleased to present its first exhibition of prints and small-scale multiples by Keith Haring. The exhibition focuses on editioned works created between 1983 and 1990.

Printmaking was an essential part of Haring’s work. He believed in the inherent democracy of creating limited editions that could extend the reach of his imagery in an attainable and affordable manner. Haring was as fascinated by the process of printmaking as he was with any medium he tackled, and he worked hands-on with numerous print publishers in the USA, Europe and Japan. In the course of his 10-year career, Haring created over 60 separate and distinct editions on paper using a variety of methods including lithograph, silk-screen, etching, embossing and aquatint. Ever prolific, Haring also created small-scale multiples in aluminum, wood, concrete and terracotta, several of which are also on view.

Highlights of the exhibition are works from The Blueprint Drawings, 1990, a series of 17 silk-screens based on Sumi ink drawings Keith completed in 1980-81. The imagery in these works presages the iconic language associated with Keith Haring ever after – images of a pyramid, flying saucer, dog and crawling baby are intermixed with wandering figures and human/animal/extraterrestrial activities. This intentional juxtaposition of his “icons” conjures up different meanings, relationships and narratives, taking some inspiration from the “cut up” methods of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. The largest work in the exhibition, Untitled, 1986, a large-scale print depicting a hydra-like creature is known to be one of the rarest in Haring’s oeuvre. This etching was done in a small edition of 24.

The exhibition will also include a special Pop Shop installation. The original Pop Shop, founded by Haring in 1986, operated in downtown Manhattan for nearly 20 years. Haring viewed the store as an extension of his work, a unique venue where his imagery could be accessible to everyone. In keeping with his vision, the Pop Shop installation at Pace Prints will feature a recreation of the Pop Shop mural environment. In addition to artwork, the Pop Shop installation will feature pieces from two of the Keith Haring Foundation’s recent collaborations: Keith Haring by Nicholas Kirkwood, haute couture footwear by the shooting-star British shoe designer, Nicholas Kirkwood; and Keith Haring by Patricia Field, apparel and accessories designed by the celebrated New York stylist and fashion designer, Patricia Field.

Keith Haring was born on May 4, 1958 in Reading, PA. In 1978, Haring moved to New York City and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts. It was here that he found a thriving alternative art community that was developing outside of the gallery and museum system, with events and exhibitions taking place in the downtown streets, subways and nightclubs. In 1990, at the age of 31, Keith Haring died of AIDS-related illnesses in New York. Since his death, his work has been the subject of several international retrospectives. His work is in major private and public collections including The Museum of Modern Art; The Whitney Museum of American Art: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Bass Museum, Miami; Centre Georges Pompidou and Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. The exhibition Keith Haring: 1978-1982, most recently on view at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and co-organized by Kunsthalle Wien, will open at the Brooklyn Museum in March 2012.