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Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. [1] His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". [2]
In June 1980, he appeared in High Times magazine, his first national publication, as part of an article titled "Graffiti '80: The State of the Outlaw Art" by Glenn O'Brien. [48] Later that year, he began filming O'Brien's independent film Downtown 81 (2000), originally titled New York Beat, which featured some of Gray's recordings on its ...
As a frequent attendant at the Mudd Club and a participant in seminal The Times Square Show, [5] [6] Freddy was a bridge between the New York uptown graffiti and early rap scene and the downtown No Wave art scene. "I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing, and urban cultural thing to the downtown table", he said. [7] In late ...
A graffiti-covered NYC Subway train, its doors open at South Ferry Subway station in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, 1983. (Credit: Peter Keegan/Keystone/Hulton Archive ...
NEW YORK - Graffiti, once an underground movement in the '70s and '80s, has now moved above ground. In fact, "Above Ground" is the name of the new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York ...
Michael Thomas Holman is a New York-based artist, writer, filmmaker and musician. [1] He is also an early 1980s downtown scene subculturalist and creator of the Hip Hop music program Graffiti Rock. Holman is a founding member, along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, of the experimental band Gray. [2]
Beat Street is a 1984 American dance drama film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s. Set in the South Bronx, the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends, all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip hop culture, including breakdancing, DJing and graffiti.
Stations of the Elevated (1981) – the earliest documentary about subway graffiti in New York City, with music by Charles Mingus; Wild Style (1982) – a drama about hip hop and graffiti culture in New York City; Style Wars (1983) – an early documentary on hip hop culture, made in New York City