Haring Pop Shop closing
I was walking downtown yesterday when I noticed somebody carrying a brightly-colored bag from the Keith Haring Pop Shop. It reminded me of how much I love Haring's art and how my two Haring shirts (white "radiant baby" and "barking dog" on black, and purple "angel" and "devil" on orange) are some of my favorite T-shirts. I made a mental note to stop in sometime and pick up another one.
Later on I headed back uptown on Lafayette Street and I passed the Pop Shop itself. It had a "For Rent" sign on the wall and a 60% off clearance sale. They're closing it down!
Keith Haring was an innovative artist in the early 1980's and one of his innovations, inspired by his friend Andy Warhol, was to make his art commercial and merchandise it in a variety of ways. The magic of Haring's art isn't in its brushtrokes or how it looks close up--the magic is in the energy and vibrancy of the colors and lines he painted, and the universal characters and emotions his art invokes.
Haring died in 1990 but his Pop Shop in New York has been an institution. When I went in they didn't even have any clothes my size left! Just postcards and stuff for babies. I took a few pictures of the shop and went on home.
Here's the press release from the Haring Foundation about the shop's closing.
Jeff
Later on I headed back uptown on Lafayette Street and I passed the Pop Shop itself. It had a "For Rent" sign on the wall and a 60% off clearance sale. They're closing it down!
Keith Haring was an innovative artist in the early 1980's and one of his innovations, inspired by his friend Andy Warhol, was to make his art commercial and merchandise it in a variety of ways. The magic of Haring's art isn't in its brushtrokes or how it looks close up--the magic is in the energy and vibrancy of the colors and lines he painted, and the universal characters and emotions his art invokes.
Haring died in 1990 but his Pop Shop in New York has been an institution. When I went in they didn't even have any clothes my size left! Just postcards and stuff for babies. I took a few pictures of the shop and went on home.
Here's the press release from the Haring Foundation about the shop's closing.
Jeff
2 Comments:
I checked out Haring works, I'm also from his home town, same age. This is at best, 6 grade renderings of some sort of playground world. Had he been touch with reality, he certainly would have lived longer and possibly improved his work.
Pop Shop closed... Too sad...
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