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Reconnecting with Haring s Grace House Mural (in 13 pieces)
A figure from Keith Harings mural from the Grace House in New York now in an exhibit Keith Haring: Grace House Mural, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. The owner offered to loan the work to the museum, and its director agreed. In Denver, original works by the artist, who died of AIDS in 1990 at age 31, are rare. Wes Magyar via The New York Times.
by Ray Mark Rinaldi
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The exhibit Keith Haring: Grace House Mural may not add up to the happy ending the Keith Haring Foundation envisioned for the sprawling 85-foot-long masterpiece the artist painted nearly four decades ago at a Manhattan youth center.
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Keith Haring: Grace House Mural.
Born in Pennsylvania in 1958, Haring arrived in New York in 1978 and launched his art career. By 1990, he had died from AIDS-related complications; he was only 31. His artistic practice spanned just a little over ten years. During that brief burst, he became world-famous, and even today, more than thirty years later, Haring’s iconic drawings are still well known.
His most famous imagery, like the crawling baby surrounded by radiating lines, or the wolfman simple outlines rather than fully fleshed-out renderings remain seared into the mind’s eye of art enthusiasts, hipsters and the general public, even those who might not know Haring’s name.