Keith Haring in 3D

About the Author

Keith Haring (1958-90) was an American artist born in Reading, PA. He moved to New York City in 1978 and began using the city as his canvas, making chalk drawings in subway stations. His art was eventually seen everywhere, from public murals and nightclubs to galleries and museums around the world. By the mid-1980s, he had befriended fellow artists Andy Warhol, Kenny Scharf, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and collaborated with celebrities like the singer Grace Jones. He was also known for his activism in promoting AIDS awareness. He died of AIDS-related complications on February 16, 1990 at the age of thirty-one. He has been the subject of retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, among other venues, and his work is in the permanent collections of major museums around the world.

Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian based in New York and London. The author most recently of A Century of Tomorrows (2024), he is currently Curator at Large for the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, Artistic Director for Design Doha a biennial festival in Qatar and editor of Material Intelligence, a quarterly online journal published by the Chipstone Foundation.

Dieter Buchhart is an art theorist and curator of numerous international exhibitions, including Keith Haring: The Political Line and Jean-Michel Basquiat: Boom for Real. Author of numerous art reviews, monographs and interviews for Kunstforum International and other art magazines, Dr. Buchhart holds doctorates in art history and art conservation. From 2007 to 2009, he was director of the Kunsthalle Krems near Vienna.

David Galloway (1937-2019) was an Amer i can nov el ist, cu ra tor, jour nal ist and academic. A grad u ate of Harvard University, he was the found ing cu ra tor of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and a pro fes sor at the Ruhr Uni ver sity Bochum. As a longtime contributor the International Her ald Tribune, he main tained a close pro fes sional re la tion ship with artists in clud ing Keith Har ing, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol. In the last decades of his life, he resided in both France and Ger many.

Francis M. Naumann is a curator, art historian and former art deal