Conversation with Keith Haring
by John Gruen
Keith Haring talks about his life and his development as an artist.

Haring All-Over
by Julia Gruen
The curator of this online exhibition discusses Haring's use of "complex surface patterns and startling color combinations".

American Beauty
by David Frankel
A discussion of Keith Haring's life and work as an embodiment of energy.

An Afternoon with Keith
by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
"In May 1985, Keith and Kenny arrived on time at my studio for what I promised would be a quick portrait." Greenfield-Sanders describes a photo-shoot with Haring and other artists.

Keith Haring: Art and Commerce
by Jade Dellinger
After nearly twenty years in business, Keith Haring's Pop Shop closed last September. There was very little fanfare, yet many mourn the loss.

Haring - Art in Transit
by Keith Haring
Keith Haring's introduction to "Art in Transit"

Introduction to Art in Transit
by Henry Geldzhaler
Henry Geldzhaler's introduction to "Art in Transit"

Body Language: Keith Haring and the Renaissance of Figurative Painting in the Eighties
by Andreas Schalhorn
The aim of the following essay is to place Keith Haring's work, the content and form of which are examined in detail in the other essays in the catalogue, in the context of the painting of his time.

Conversations
by with Fred Brathwaite, Fred Schneider, Jellybean Benitez and Junior Vasquez
Each of these men and his music and art informed the work and lifestyle of Keith Haring.

Keith Haring: The Diamond, the Elephant, and Marcel Duchamp
by Arturo Schwarz
"I wish to conclude these reflections on Keith Haring looking into the archetypal sources of his iconology, but before doing so, I believe that I should dwell on Haring's Journals…"

Disegno e Colore: The Reconciliation of Two Rivals in the Art of Keith Haring
by Ulrike Gehring
Gehring investigates how "the conflict between 'disegno' and 'colore', first picked out as a central theme by Vasari" is played out in Haring's work.

Drawing the Line: The Graphic Legacy of Keith Haring
by David Galloway
"With few exceptions, critical interest in an artist's drawings has depended on achievements in other and, by implication, more "serious" genres like painting or sculpture…. …the role of the drawing in Keith Haring's oeuvre reverses this traditional pattern."

Funny How Things Turn Out
by Kim Hastreiter
"Club 57 is where I first met Keith Haring. I thought he seemed quite a shy guy at first…"

Keith Haring. A Great Artist, A True Friend
by Tony Shafrazi
Tony Shrafazi remembers Keith Haring and his first shows at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery.

Keith Haring and Czech Art
by Tomáš Pospiszyl

"Keith Haring is not unknown to artists in the Czech Republic… Haring's drawings, paintings and prints became symbols of the new artistic energy of the 1980s. Nonetheless it is only now, more than 17 years after his death, that his first exhibition is taking place here [The Czech Republic]."

Heaven and Hell
by Ralph Melcher
An analysis of the darker side of Haring's work.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
by David Galloway
…Keith Haring, too, had explored a darker side of experience long before the dread diagnosis. The earliest works produced in his characteristic graphic style include serpents and monsters, nuclear radiation and falling angels, cannibals, omnivorous worms, bloody daggers and skeletons…

Bathed in Heraclitan Fire
by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
A reassessment of Keith Haring's work.

His Art Is His Life
by Jeffrey Deitch
Gianni Mercurio interviews the New York art dealer, Jeffrey Deitch about Keith Haring's development as an artist and his influence on art practiced today.

Keith Haring: In The Moment
by Gianni Mercurio
"For Haring, painting was an experience that at its best allowed him to transcend reality…. This was a radically different experience from the one that lay behind the culture of the tag, which entailed a monotonous affirmation of the writer's ego, traced in clearly visible letters in every corner of the metropolis."

Keith Haring
by Fernanda Pivano
"Ah, Keith Haring. It's hard to speak of him without remembering that he died at the age of thirty-one."

Keith's Kids
by Andrea Codrington
"Haring was tireless in his work with children of all ages and backgrounds."

Memories

William Burroughs, Leo Castelli, Henry Geldzahler, Timothy Leary, Roy Lichtenstein, Madonna, Yoko Ono, and Brooke Shields remember Haring.

Milan, 1984
by Elio Fiorucci
Elio Fiorucci writes, "In 1984, we stripped bare our store, measuring 1,500 square meters, and asked Keith Haring to treat it as a space of his own, in which he would be able to create a great work of art.".

No Boundaries
by Julia Gruen

"…both Schiele and Haring were precocious, incredibly prolific, obsessive workers – producers of voluminous quantities of images, with both artists' oeuvres consisting primarily of drawings. They each found their signature style at in their early 20s."

Paradise Garage

"Haring's work embodies the sounds of the New York streets and of streetwise clubs like Paradise Garage"

Between Politics and Mythology
by Peter Halley
Gianni Mercurio interview Peter Halley about Haring's work.

Radiant Eros: Keith Haring and Sexuality
by Giorgio Verzotti
"Haring's innovative, and also politically progressive, strength will only be obvious to his age if the role which sexuality played in his work and in his imagination is taken into consideration…"

Sex is Life is Sex

Jerome de Noirmont Gallery discusses the "crucial importance of sex and sexuality in the artist's life and work".
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On the Shoulders of Giants. Keith Haring
by Demetrio Paparoni
"Haring did not hesitate to redo other people's pictures, repainting, formally and explicitly, works by Picasso, Legér, or Matisse, in demonstration of the fact that tradition is a life blood for artists of every age."

Untitled, 2005
by Julia Gruen
"We met through the divine intervention of the New York Times classified section. That such a prosaic beginning should lead to the excitement of a new career and a new outlook on life still amazes me.".