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18 unusual facts about Keith Haring


Atlantic House

Cabral, a collector of art, graced the establishment with such decorative accents as a carved wooden figurehead said to come from the last whaling ship to operate out of Provincetown Harbor and signed works by Andy Warhol and Keith Haring.

Bowery Mural

In November 2010 for the fourth project Goldman presented on this historic wall a recreation of Keith Haring’s famous 1982 Bowery mural.

In the summer of 2008 they initiated the mural series with a recreation of Keith Haring’s famous 1982 Bowery mural.

George Lilanga

Lilanga was considered to have had an influence on the young American graffiti artists (Keith Haring said in an interview that he had been influenced by Lilanga's art).

Heinz Günter Mebusch

Black and white portraits and colour prints were made of Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Ford Beckmann, Fernando Botero, Herman de Vries, Felix Droese, Erró, Keith Haring, Dennis Hopper, Jörg Immendorff, Martin Kippenberger, Meret Oppenheim, A.R. Penck, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Yannis Tsarouchis and Wolf Vostell.

Knokke Casino

The largest of Belgium's ten casinos, it is known for its artwork by Keith Haring, René Magritte and Paul Delvaux.

Lee Quiñones

Quiñones' style is rooted in popular culture, often with political messages, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Lothar Späth

In 1989, he sponsored the publication of an art portfolio called Kinderstern, featuring original drawings by Sol LeWitt, Jörg Immendorff, Sigmar Polke, Max Bill, Heinz Mack, Keith Haring and Imi Knoebel, to benefit children cancer patients.

Martin Nisenholtz

In 1981, he invited prominent media artists including John Fekner, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring to create experimental art projects using Videotext.

Paul Blanca

Mapplethorpe mentored Blanca, introducing him to New York high society,including artists such as Grace Jones, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning and Keith Haring.

Robert Risko

At 25 he was chosen by renowned art director Bea Feitler along with Rolling Stone photographer Annie Leibovitz and artist Keith Haring to define the look of the new Vanity Fair when the magazine was relaunched in 1983.

Shetani

Lilanga was considered to have had an influence on the young American graffiti artists; Keith Haring said in an interview that he had been influenced by Lilanga's art.

Tony Shafrazi

Tony Shafrazi is the owner of the Shafrazi Art Gallery in New York, who deals artwork by artists such as Francis Bacon, Keith Haring, and David LaChapelle.

In 1979, he opened his first New York gallery, and within a few years he had made his reputation handling talents like Donald Baechler and then-hot graffiti artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf and also europeans artits like Brian Clark, Enzo Cucchi, Hervé Di Rosa and Jean-Charles Blais .

We Bomb

The video for the song, produced by Picture Perfect, was filmed on location at several famous NYC graffiti landmarks including 5 Pointz in Queens, Keith Haring's Crack is Wack wall in Harlem, Cope2's wall at Boon Ave. in the Bronx, and the American Trash bar.

Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center

Artist Keith Haring created a public mural in the ambulatory care department.

Young at Art Museum

Featured areas include the “Cave Portal” where images of art and its histories explode with sight and sound; a “Portrait Salon” that encourages self-expression inspired by the work of artists from Picasso to Basquiat; and “Avenue A”, a New York subway car where Keith Haring’s work becomes a collective mural created by visitors.

Zhang Dali

He was the only graffiti artist in Beijing throughout the early 1990s, and is the first artist since Keith Haring and Jackson Pollock to be given the cover of Time magazine.


Hedy Klineman

Keith Haring, Mary McFadden, Brett Easton Ellis, Larry Rivers, Betsey Johnson and Jane Holzer all donated items that were used in their portraits.

Marcus Jansen

In 2008, Jansen was commissioned by Warner Brothers Hollywood for an interpretation of the 1939 story The Wizard of Oz honoring the companies 80th Anniversary and later was noted in Who's Who in American Art and became more widely known for his "Absolut Blank" bottle for "Absolut Vodka", as part of the next Generation of Absolut artist's as he joined the names like Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Damien Hirst.

The Offs

The Offs counted among their fans and friends numerous people in the downtown New York art/music scene, including artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, musician and actor Richard Edson, who played trumpet with the band, and Glenn O'Brien, the peripatetic chronicler of the scene for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine.

Woodward Gallery

Among the artists currently represented and/or held in inventory are Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Richard Hambleton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, Sybil Gibson, Cristina Vergano, Margaret Morrison, Susan Breen, Natalie Edgar, Matt Siren, Darkcloud, Kenji Nakayama, Mark Mastroianni, and Rick Begneaud.