A New Exhibit Offers a Comprehensive Overview of Keith Haring’s Art


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Published on: May 16, 2021

Where could you go to see an in-depth museum exhibition focusing on an iconic 1980s New York City visual artist — and, more specifically, focusing on some lesser-known aspects of that artist’s work? If your answer was “the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis,” congratulations; you are indeed correct. The museum is currently hosting Keith Haring: Radiant Genius, and its comprehensive approach to Haring’s life and work offers one of the fullest takes on his art to date.

A New Exhibit Offers a Comprehensive Overview of Keith Haring’s Art

At the time of Haring’s 1990 death, the New York Times offered a concise overview of his most famous works. “Among his best-known images were the ‘Radiant Child,’ a crawling infant surrounded by rays of light, and the ‘Barking Dog,’ an alligatorlike creature that looked as if it had emerged from an Aztec hieroglyphic,” wrote Andrew L. Yarrow.

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