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The Arts Intel Report

Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody

Keith Haring, Red Room, 1988.

Feb 4 – Mar 17, 2024
317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada

In the 1970s and 80s, Keith Haring lived in downtown Manhattan and ran with a pack that included Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Kenny Scharf. He painted his radiant, stylized figures across the city, interlocking bodies that reverberated with energy. Haring’s life was cut short by AIDS; he died in 1990, at the age of 31. For his first museum exhibition in Toronto, 120 works—in the mediums of video, sculpture, drawing, and painting—are on view. Rounding out the show are archival materials that hone in on his participation in the anti-Apartheid movement and nuclear disarmament. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: The Broad Art Foundation/© Keith Haring Foundation