H A R I N G

Keith Haring photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi, Paris environs, France, 1989

“No matter how long you work, it’s always going to end sometime. And there’s always going to be things left undone. And it wouldn’t matter if you lived until you were seventy-five. There would still be new ideas. There would still be things that you wished you would have accomplished. You could work for several lifetimes… And there are no regrets. Part of the reason that I’m not having trouble facing the reality of death is that it’s not a limitation, in a way. It could have happened any time, and it is going to happen sometime. If you live your life according to that, death is irrelevant. Everything I’m doing right now is exactly what I want to do.” - Keith Haring

Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 - February 16, 1990) “I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.”

Photos by Tseng Kwong Chi

Keith Haring for Lucky Strike, 1987

Pop Shop IV, 1989 Keith Haring

Photos by Tseng Kwong Chi

Keith Haring photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi in the New York City subway, circa 1983-84.

Keith Haring photographed by Ozier Muhammad for Newsday, 1986.

Keith Haring photographed by Andy Warhol in his studio, 1983.

Keith Haring painting a carousel for André Heller’s Luna Luna, 1987. 

Keith Haring photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi Bordeaux, France, 1985

Grace Jones painted by Keith Haring, by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1984

Photo by Tseng Kwong Chi, 1984.

Keith Haring

Keith Haring photographed by Jeannette Montgomery Barron in his studio, 1985.

Keith Haring photographed by Baptiste Lignel in his studio on October 30, 1988.