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Art is for everybody


Keith Haring, Untitled, 1982 Douglas M. Parker Studio/The Keith Haring Foundation/The Broad Art Foundation


Keith Haring: Art is for everybody at the Broad Museum is indeed for everybody. Accompanied by music from his old mixtapes the exhibition will feature over 120 artworks and archival materials.

In a video clip from CBS News Haring explains, “You don’t have to know anything about art to appreciate it, there aren’t any hidden secrets or things that you’re supposed to understand”, hence the title of the show Keith Haring: Art is for everybody. Known for his use of vibrant color, and iconic cartoon like characters of the barking dog and radiant baby, Haring’s imagery is fun and joyous even though it takes on complex issues that remain crucial today from environmentalism, capitalism, and the proliferation of new technologies to religion, sexuality, and race.

Gil Vazquez, who heads The Keith Haring Foundation, says his work remains relevant. "A lot of the things that Keith spoke up for — LGBT issues, or spoke up against — racial disparities, police brutality: These are things that persistent. You know, his art still really resonates." Divided into ten galleries in total, the expansive exhibition will feature the breadth of mediums Haring worked within, including video, sculpture, drawing, painting, and graphic works, as well as representations from the artist’s enormous output of public projects, from the subway drawings to his public murals.

Haring died of complications from AIDS in 1990, when he was just 31 years old.

Keith Haring, Untitled, 1982 Douglas M. Parker Studio/The Keith Haring Foundation/The Broad Art Foundation

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