Keith Haring: Street Art Boy

On the thirtieth anniversary of Keith Haring’s death, at 32, in 1990, unreleased films from the Haring Foundation’s archives trace his life and work. The voices of family members, friends, artists and curators intertwine with Haring’s, from an unpublished interview. The film is an immersion in 1980s New York’s underground scene: rap and graffiti merged with the new wave aesthetic. Haring’s accessible art was a figurative vocabulary that became a global icon, exhibited in public spaces. The documentary shows his relationship with Andy Warhol and Madonna, the creation of a pop shop which allowed everyone to buy his art, the project of a huge banner made in 1986 together with teenagers from New York’s poor neighborhoods, and aspects of his private life, from drug use to AIDS, which broke out in the mid-eighties and took Haring’s life and many of his friends’.