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Artists and Greenwich Village: Keith Haring

Two panels reminisce about the New Wave scene that filled the East Village and Lower East Side with astonishing art and music for a brief five years, 1978 to 1983, and brought two extraordinary young artists, Keith Haring and Jean-Michael Basquiat, into the limelight.

In 1978, 19-year-old Keith Haring (d. 1990) moved to New York City and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts. Inspired by the ubiquitous graffiti of the time, he displayed his pop art–style drawings in subway stations and exhibited both drawings and video art at the famous little Club 57. Soon his work was being exhibited at the Westbeth Gallery, PS 122, and the Hal Bromm Gallery, and he rocketed to fame. A panel of artists and gallery owners including Hal Bromm and Patti Astor, all of whom knew Haring, discuss how the Village of the late 1970s influenced this renowned artist and how he influenced the Village.

The series continues on Thursday, October 18 with Jean-Michel Basquiat: Graffiti and Glory.

Sponsored by the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation and The New School for Public Engagement.

 











When: Wed., Oct. 3, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Where: Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Ave.
212-229-8900
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Two panels reminisce about the New Wave scene that filled the East Village and Lower East Side with astonishing art and music for a brief five years, 1978 to 1983, and brought two extraordinary young artists, Keith Haring and Jean-Michael Basquiat, into the limelight.

In 1978, 19-year-old Keith Haring (d. 1990) moved to New York City and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts. Inspired by the ubiquitous graffiti of the time, he displayed his pop art–style drawings in subway stations and exhibited both drawings and video art at the famous little Club 57. Soon his work was being exhibited at the Westbeth Gallery, PS 122, and the Hal Bromm Gallery, and he rocketed to fame. A panel of artists and gallery owners including Hal Bromm and Patti Astor, all of whom knew Haring, discuss how the Village of the late 1970s influenced this renowned artist and how he influenced the Village.

The series continues on Thursday, October 18 with Jean-Michel Basquiat: Graffiti and Glory.

Sponsored by the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation and The New School for Public Engagement.

 

Buy tickets/get more info now