Main article: Pop Shop Haring painting a mural at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1986 Vankin, Debroah (October 12, 2022). "More than 120 Keith Haring pieces are coming to L.A. next year — here's how to see them". Los Angeles Times. The Pop Shop stayed open following Haring’s death, with all proceeds benefiting the Keith Haring Foundation. Haring’s Pop Shop was far from his sole attempt to make his art more publicly available. Haring created art in subways and on billboards throughout his career. His efforts to make his art approachable may also be noticed in the absence of discernible ages, ethnicities, or identities in his figures.

He also produced the iconic Keith Haring fresco at Melbourne’s Collingwood Technical College. The media reported Haring’s meteoric ascension to global celebrity notoriety. His artwork was included in the February 1984 edition of Vanity Fair, as well as the October 1984 edition of Newsweek. The United Nations requested Haring to design the first-day illustration for a United Nations stamp and an associated special edition lithographic print to celebrate 1985 as International Youth Year. In 2022 the drawing of ''Radiant Baby'' that he had made on the wall of his childhood home in the early 1980s was removed by its owners, together with part of the wall panelling, and offered for sale. [183] Collections [ edit ] In 1989, the year before his death, Haring did four shows. He set up the Keith Haring Foundation, which still exists today, working to support underprivileged children and HIV charities. And he did an interview with Rolling Stone.Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat | NGV". National Gallery of Victoria . Retrieved September 20, 2020.

Kaminer, Michael (August 7, 2020). "Great Escapes: Artist and Photographer Clayton Patterson's Five Essential Downtown New York Creators". Barron's. LA2's struggle and history make him important to me. He was a young Puerto Rican kid who came to me for help. He had joined the Keith Haring circus at 15. Keith had the barking dog and the radiant baby. But it's graphics, not fine art. LA2 created the fill-ins. Those little symbols in Keith's work are LA2's signatures. Keith and LA2 were a collaboration, and people don't talk about their work that way. LA2 was not just the help. The art establishment has shafted him. Percival, Lindy (November 21, 2019). "Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat: art stars who shone too briefly". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved May 5, 2021. Haring lived and worked in New York from 1978 until his death, aged 31, from an Aids-related illness. In his final few years, he was invited all over the world to make work, and if you want to see some real-life Keith Haring art, you still can. There is a mural in Pisa, on the side of the church of Sant’Antonio, which he made in the last year of his life. There is one at the Carmine public swimming pool on Clarkson Street in Greenwich Village, New York, painted by Haring in one day in 1987. There is public work by Haring in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Antwerp, Berlin, Paris, Melbourne; on hospitals, at schools (often made with children), in an LGBT community services centre. In July 2020, BBC Two broadcast the documentary Keith Haring: Street Art Boy, which is built from a series of interviews between Haring and art critic John Gruen in 1989. [145] [146] The documentary, which was directed by Ben Anthony, aired in December 2020 on PBS as part of the American Masters series. [147] [148] Influences [ edit ] McEwen remembers him painting abstract images on the ground in the loading bay of SVA. Lots of passersby stopped to talk, to tell him what they thought. “One would say it reminded them of fighting in world war two, another said they could see animals in there,” she says. “He thrived on that interaction and I think it pushed him to take his art out on to the streets.”That same year, Haring was also invited by artist Roger Nellens to paint a mural at his Casino Knokke. [77] While working there, Haring stayed in Le Dragon, a monster-shaped guest house owned by Nellens which had been designed by artist Niki de Saint Phalle. With the consent of both the designer and the owner, Haring painted a fresco mural along an interior balcony and stairway. [78] [79] By 1984, Haring couldn’t do the subway paintings any more, because people were stealing them as soon as they were up and putting them up for sale. Fake Harings started springing up; his style was much imitated, especially in Japan. In 1986, he set up his Pop Shop on Lafayette Street. He wanted the public to be able to access his real work, not just those with enough money to be able to buy one of his paintings. Popular culture accepted his art long before the establishment did. For Haring, the Pop Shop “was the ultimate in cutting them [the art establishment] out of the picture”. a b c d Koppel, Niko (August 5, 2008). "Little Angel Was Here: A Keith Haring Collaborator Makes His Mark". The New York Times. In 1980 Haring was 22 and an up-and-coming artist painting in a schoolyard on the Lower East Side when he was first approached by Mr. Ortiz, then 13. Mr. Ortiz had heard that Haring was impressed by his graffiti and that he was looking for him ... Mr. Ortiz contends that he has been denied credit and profits from the sale and licensing of artwork that he helped create. Young, Michelle (September 17, 2020). "See Inside Keith Haring's Last Apartment in NYC". Untapped New York . Retrieved May 5, 2021. WOW! – Work Of the Week – Keith Haring "Free South Africa #2" ". Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art . Retrieved March 23, 2021.

a b c Carey, Lovelace (May 13, 1984). "Graffiti-ist Chalks Up Art Stardom". The Los Angeles Times. p.297. Wheeler, André-Naquian (November 2, 2017). "an oral history of club 57, the legendary 80s underground art club". i-D . Retrieved March 11, 2021. On May 4, 2012, on what would have been Haring's 54th birthday, Google honored him in a Google Doodle. [130]Haring also made public paintings in the foyer and outpatient care section of the Mental Health Center and the Woodhull Medical that year. Haring worked with Grace Jones, whom he met thanks to Andy Warhol. Jones’ body was painted by Haring for her music video “I’m Not Perfect” as well as for the live stage shows at the Paradise Garage. Jones was also colored by Haring for her part as the Queen of the Vampires, in the movie Vamp from 1986.