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KeithHaringandJean-MichelBasquiatbothworked

ferventlyanddiedyoung,leavingtwoprolificartcareers

cuttragicallyshort.Butto captheirsimilaritiesthere

wouldbeto missa widerportraitof theirfriendshipand

thesocialandpoliticalatmosphereof 1980sNewYork.

A newexhibition,exclusiveto Melbourne’sNGV

International,attemptsto paintthatportraitin more

than 300 worksbythetwoartists.Aesthetically,Haring’s

andBasquiat’sworkscanbeworldsapart—theformer

withsimplelinefiguredrawings;thelatterwith

collage-likecompositions—yetconceptually,they

aretwins.Orat leastsiblings.HaringandBasquiat

(whowerebornanddiedtwoyearsapart)emerged

in theartworldat a timeof artists’squatsand

experimentation,andusedthestreetsas theircanvases,

wheretheyconfrontedissuessuchas AIDS,gayrights,

religion,capitalismandracism.– AlexandraEnglish

KeithHaring| Jean-MichelBasquiat:CrossingLines,

December 1–April 13, 2020, ngv.vic.gov.au.

... Consider two

iconic ’80s artists in

a new context?

Clockwisefrom

left:Untitled,

1982,and

MuseumSecurity

(Broadway

Meltdown), 1983,

byJean-Michel

Basquiat;

Untitled, 1982,

andUntitled,

1983,byKeith

ART Haring.

CULTURE

PREVIOUS

PAGE:

©

KEITH

HARING

FOUNDATION,

NEW

YORK.

THIS

PAGE:

ESTATE

OF

JEAN-MICHEL

BASQUIAT/

LICENSED

BY

ARTESTAR,

NEW

YORK;

J.W.

POWER

COLLECTION,

UNIVERSITY

OF

SYDNEY,

MANAGED

BY MUSEUM

OF CONTEMPORARY ART, PURCHASED 1982/© KEITH HARING FOUNDATION; JOHANSEN KRAUSE.