Keith Haring (1958-1990)

["Long Skulled Keith Haring Lawrence Kansas September 9, 1987 Passing thru Burroughs Fiesta" (Ginsberg caption) Photo c. Allen Ginsberg Estate]

[Keith Haring 'untitled, figures representing the aids virus' May 13, 1989. Water color and ink on paper.]
Twenty-two years ago today, the artist Keith Haring  passed away. We send you, of course, to the Keith Haring Foundation  - "The Keith Haring Foundation was established in 1989 to assist AIDS-related and children's charities, and maintains the largest resource of archives on the late artist..". Check out also their blog here  for further updated information.

In March, "Keith Haring: 1978-1982"  - "the first large scale exhibition to explore (his) early career", will take place at the Brooklyn Museum."Timothy Leary. Andy Warhol. Allen Ginsberg. Grace Jones . Jean-Michel Basquiat .William Burroughs. These, Keith told me one evening, were the persons in his pantheon"(Robert Farris Thompson , in his obituary for Keith Haring in Artforum )

Allen was the proud owner of a number of works by Keith (he can be seen jokingly displaying one of them, the coyly-named "Pals", to Taylor Mead, in this video). ...

[ Keith Haring, 'Pals', black felt tip pen on photograph. AG acquired from Keith Haring, 1989]

A further AG image:

[Keith Haring, half-finished chalk drawing sidewalk outside Kale's Gallery, Lawrence, KS 9/11/1987. Spectra commercial print. (note: Spectra was the commercial photo printer down the block from Allen, so he's stating this was printed there, and not by his regular printers Brian Graham or Sid Kaplan)]