1980
Keith Haring began experimenting with his bold, graphic lines and cartoon-inspired figures on the walls of New York City subway stations in the early 1980s. He called them his “laboratory,” places to develop a radical new aesthetic based on an ideology of creating truly democratic public art.
Haring’s paintings, prints and murals address the universal themes of death, love and sex, as well as contemporary issues he experienced personally, like the crack-cocaine and AIDS epidemics. They derive much of their impact from the powerful contrast between these serious subjects and the joyful, vibrant pictographic language he uses to express them, full of dancing figures, babies, barking dogs, hearts and rhythmic lines, as well as references to pop culture.
To make his art even more accessible, in 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop in Soho. In a foreshadowing of today’s intermingling of art and fashion, the shop sold merchandise and novelty items featuring imagery by Haring and contemporaries like Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. While his works sometimes included text, for the most part, he chose to communicate through drawing.
“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times,” Haring once declared. “It lives through magic.”
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Keith Haring Talk To Us! 1989 (Keith Haring Aids hotline)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Talk To Us! 1989 (The Aids Hotline): Designed & illustrated by Keith Haring one year after Haring's own diagnosis, this RARE poster advertisement was displayed by t...
Lithograph, Offset
$1,200
H 15 in W 11 in
Keith Haring Death 1990 (NY Newspaper articles announcing Haring’s death)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring death 1990: Set of four RARE 1990 New York newspaper articles announcing Keith Haring’s death. Components: Feb 17, 1990 removed articles from the: - New York Post - N...
Paper
Keith Haring Debbie Dick 'Keith Haring Safe Sex'
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Keith Haring 'Debbie Dick' Vintage 1988 Keith Haring Safe Sex promotional item: Offset printed sticker featuring a Classic Keith Haring imag...
Paper
Keith Haring Talk To Us! (Keith Haring Aids hotline)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Talk To Us! poster c. 1994 (The Aids Hotline): Designed & illustrated by Keith Haring one year after Haring's own diagnosis with the disease, this poster was issued by ...
Offset, Lithograph
$6,000
H 8 in W 5.25 in
Keith Haring designed Martin Luther King Day announcement 1988
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Invitation for Martin Luther King Day celebration 1988, designed by Keith Haring In 1988, 20 years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Keith Haring illustrated this rare invi...
Offset
$1,100
H 9 in W 6 in
Keith Haring ephemera collection 1980's/1990s (Keith Haring pop shop)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1980s/1990s Keith Haring ephemera collection: A collection of 20+ Keith Haring ephemera pieces ranging mostly from 1982 to circa mid-1990s. Highlights include a 1980's Haring design...
Offset, Paper
Keith Haring 1984 Paul Maenz gallery (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany 1984: Super rare announcement card designed by Haring on occasion of his 1984 solo exhibition (3 May - 5 June 1984), at Paul Maenz G...
Lithograph, Offset
$300
H 6 in W 4 in
Keith Haring Into 84 (Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi announcement)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Into 84/Keith Haring Painted Man 1983: Announcement card for Keith Haring’s well-documented exhibition, 'Into 84' at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New Y...
Offset, Lithograph
$425
H 4 in W 6 in
Keith Haring 1985 announcement (Keith Haring at Tony Shafarzi Leo Castelli)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring at Tony Shafrazi/Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1985: Rare original 1980s announcement for two Keith Haring exhibitions: Keith Haring at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, October 26...
Offset, Lithograph
Keith Haring Safe Sex! (vintage Keith Haring poster)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Safe Sex poster 1987: A fun, witty, classic Haring illustration created by the artist in conjunction with his many Aids Awar...
Lithograph, Offset
Poster for Nuclear Disarmament
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
This work by Keith Haring is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Poster for Nuclear Disarmament 1982 Printed signature and date, l.r.; Also hand-signed, dated, and inscribed, verso ...
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
Untitled (Between C & D)
By David Wojnarowicz
Located in New York, NY
In this offset poster, printed in collaboration with the Lower East Side literary magazine, "Between C & D," David Wojnarowicz confronts and denounces violence against members of the LGBT community. Cynthia Carr discusses this poster in her biography, "Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz." She relates the episode of when Wojnarowicz became estranged from collaborator Marion Scemama during the production of this piece and inked out her name on the copies of the poster in his possession. This is a copy from his estate. Between C & D (1983–1990) was a Lower East Side quarterly literary magazine edited by Joel Rose and Carherine Texier. Though a geographical reference to the blocks between Avenue C and Avenue D in New York City's East Village neighborhood, “Between C & D” has also been suggested to mean “between coke and dope,” giving an indication of the publication's transgressive content and ethos. The magazine's actual tagline was “Sex. Drugs. Danger. Violence. Computers.” It was printed on fanfold computer paper, sold in a plastic bag, and featured original artwork on each binding. Contributors included Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Gary Indiana, Tama Janowitz...
Offset
Let the Record Show
Located in New York, NY
Offset poster Text at bottom reads: “©1987 THE SILENCE = DEATH PROJECT. Used by permission by ACT UP, The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power, 135 West 29th St., #10, NYC 10001” This a...
Offset
John Sex
By Bill Costa
Located in New York, NY
John Sex c. 1980s Signed and titled in ink, recto Vintage gelatin silver print 12 x 17 inches (30.5 x 43.2 cm), image 16 x 20 inches (40.6 50.8 cm), sheet ...
Silver Gelatin
Gay Liberation
By Lori Grinker
Located in New York, NY
Gay Liberation 2015 Signed and numbered, verso Archival pigment print 12 x 18 inches (Edition of 5) $3,500 This work is offered by ClampArt in New Y...
Archival Pigment
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They Stripped Him and Put on Him a Scarlet Rob[e]
By Bill Costa
Located in New York, NY
This photograph by Bill Costa is offered by CLAMP in New York City. They Stripped Him and Put on Him a Scarlet Rob[e] 1990 Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in ink, verso Gelati...
Silver Gelatin
