Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch
In the space of little more than a decade, Keith Haring lived a rich and improbable life. He was still just a student in New York when he developed the ingratiating version of street art that would make him a surprise star of the 1980s art world, pop-culture division.
His first examples were mordantly funny notes from underground, thousands of white chalk drawings he made in subway stations. Haring laid them down quickly—transit cops were around every corner—on the sheets of black paper that once covered expired station ads until new ones could be pasted into the same frames.
