Homage to Haring at Brooklyn Museum

This article was posted by Martha Cooper 1 Year, 3 months, 1 Day, 8 hours, 52 minutes ago.

The Brooklyn Museum celebrated their big, new Keith Haring show with a gala opening on Wednesday. Many fellow artists, friends, celebrities and art world peeps were in attendance. The exhibit focuses on Keith’s early career 1978-1982 and includes all kinds of large and small works seldom seen before. There’s an entire room of chalk drawings peeled from subway signboards and charming, early videos of Keith at work. Personally I felt that LA2 deserved more recognition than just a mention on one panel and, I admit, I was disappointed not to see Subway Art among all the graffiti and street art books in the museum shop. But the show, which will be up until July 8, is a must-see.

Futura in the house!

Brooklyn Street Art's Jaime Rojo and Steve Harrington with curator Sharon Matt Atkins.

Haze, Rosie Perez, Courtney Love and photographer David LaChappelle. Oops--I'm outta my league.

Courtney Love

Lee & Tamara with Deborah Harry aka Blondie.

Here are a few of my own photos—not in the show.

Lee with his Blondie painting at P.S.1 in 1982.

Keith drawing on and signing anything kids handed to him at his Fun Gallery show.

Houston Street wall.

Houston Street walll.

I treasure this catalog from a 1982 Tony Shifrazi show that Keith signed for me.

An old framed portrait of Keith embellished by LA2. I would have liked to see a little more of him in this show.

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