About Keith Haring
Drew forty subway pictures a day, got arrested for vandalism, opened a shop the art world hated, and spent his last years turning AIDS activism into public art.
Where to see Keith Haring
Collection holdings are reported here; current display varies. Check with each museum before visiting.
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8 recorded works
Groninger Museum
Groningen, Netherlands
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7 recorded works
Bavarian State Painting Collections
Munich, Germany
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3 recorded worksStedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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3 recorded worksNational Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
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2 recorded works
M HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
Antwerp, Belgium
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2 recorded worksWhitney Museum of American Art
New York City, United States
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1 recorded work
New York Historical
New York City, United States
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1 recorded work
Musée d'art moderne de Paris
Paris, France
Also here (6)
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1 recorded work
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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1 recorded work
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, United States
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1 recorded workPrinceton Art Museum
Princeton, United States
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1 recorded work
MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Barcelona, Spain
Also here (4)
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1 recorded work
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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1 recorded work
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
San Francisco, United States
Also here (3)
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1 recorded work
Centraal Museum
Utrecht, Netherlands
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1 recorded work
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, United States
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0 recorded works
Museum van Bommel van Dam
Venlo, Netherlands
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0 recorded works
Luna Luna
Hamburg, Germany
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0 recorded works
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
Ghent, Belgium
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0 recorded works
Museum Folkwang
Essen, Germany
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Where can I see Keith Haring art in nyc?
Keith Haring's works can be seen at Groninger Museum, Bavarian State Painting Collections, M HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, and 2 other museums worldwide.Where Keith Haring from?
Keith Haring was United States, born in 1958 and died in 1990.Why did Keith Haring make art?
Keith Haring sought to link “low” popular street culture with the “high” art of galleries and museums. He was also entranced by graffiti art when he moved to New York to study in 1978.Why did Keith Haring start making art?
Keith Haring was entranced by graffiti art when he moved to New York to study in 1978. He had a eureka moment while admiring graffitied trains in the subway, and saw that subway advertising panels were covered in matt black paper before new adverts were added.Is Keith Haring pop art?
Keith Haring opened the Pop Shop in 1986. There, he sold multiples and everyday objects painted by him.Did Keith Haring know basquiat?
Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring both launched their careers at the ‘Times Square Show’. Within a year the two young artists had become celebrities who lived fast and died young.How did Keith Haring become famous?
Keith Haring became famous through his subway work. He drew in the stations almost every day between 1980 and 1985, sometimes producing forty drawings in a single session, and this made him famous before galleries did.Who was Keith Haring inspired by?
Walt Disney and Charles Schulz inspired Keith Haring. That combination of cartoon simplicity and obsessive repetition stayed with him.
Sources
Where to See guide aggregates verified holdings of Keith Haring's works across the following collections.
- [1] museum New York Historical Used for: museum holdings.
- [2] museum Musée d'art moderne de Paris Used for: museum holdings.
- [3] museum Museum van Bommel van Dam Used for: museum holdings.
- [4] museum Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Used for: museum holdings.
- [5] museum Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Used for: museum holdings.
- [6] museum Carnegie Museum of Art Used for: museum holdings.
- [7] book Charlotte Mullins, A Little History of Art Used for: biography.
- [8] book Masterpieces of western art : a history of art in 900 individual studies from the Gothic to the present day Used for: biography.
- [9] book Carol Strickland and John Boswell, The Annotated Mona Lisa Used for: biography.
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