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* Anthony Burgess

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As we fiddle with our framing, we might send colorful birthday greetings to Keith Haring; he was born on this date in 1958.  Haring dropped out of commercial art school in Pennsylvania, moved to New York City, and became involved in the street art scene in the late 70s.  He quickly developed a signature style, and began to get recognition for a series of painting in New York’s subway system that were documented by the photographer Tseng Kwong Chi.  By 1982, Haring’s fame had grown, and he’d begun to organize installations at Club 57.  Openly gay and an engaged social activist, Haring filled his work with social, political, and gender comment, though largely in a textured, “buried” way.  His most overt political statement was his 1989 painting “Silence = Death,” a riff on the 1986 poster that became the unofficial logo of ACT UP.  Haring died of AIDS-related complications in 1990.

Haring’s “Silence = Death”

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