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Crack Is Wack is a mural created in 1986 by American artist and social activist Keith Haring.. Located near the Harlem River Drive in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, the mural serves as a warning against crack cocaine use, which was rampant in major cities across the United States during the mid to late 1980s.
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 ]
Haring, whose work focused on New York City's 1980s street culture, often with political or social messages, died in 1990. Authenticated works by the artist can fetch between $500,000 and $1 ...
Carnival attractions created by artists Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hockney are now on display in New York. 44 crates - lost for decades - were unsealed. Inside was a fair dreamed ...
Haring painting a mural at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1986. This is an incomplete list of paintings and other works by American artist Keith Haring (1958–1990). Haring's art career gained massive popularity from his chalk drawings at New York City subways. [1]
Based in midtown New York, Alliance partnered with the Keith Haring Foundation [3] [4] to open the Keith Haring ASC Harlem Center in 2010 [5] [6] and opened CASA Washington Heights to serve New York's Washington Heights community in 2011. In 2016, the Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center joined Alliance.
Keith Haring's "A Book Full of Fun" mural, painted in Iowa City in 1989, is exclusively on display at the Stanley Museum of Art.
Refuse & Resist! ("R&R!") was a human rights activist group founded in New York City in 1987 [1] by Emile de Antonio, Dore Ashton, Dennis Brutus, John Gerassi, Abbie Hoffman, William Kunstler, C. Clark Kissinger, Conrad Lynn, Sonia Sanchez, Rev. Fernando Santillana, and other activists who were concerned that the American government, epitomized by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, advocated a far ...