Keith HaringUSA, 1958–1990Altar Piece
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Imens i livet hos Keith Haring
Hele livet1978 – 16. februar 1990 · Virkested
New York City
autumn 1988
Diagnosed with AIDS
In the autumn of 1988 he was diagnosed with AIDS. From then on he campaigned actively against the silence around the illness; the danger of the disease became a constant theme of his work, the virus typically appearing in his graphics as a sperm cell with devil’s horns.
December 1988
A show at Tony Shafrazi’s, his “most important to date”
In December 1988 an exhibition of his opened at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, which he called his most important show to date; because of his health and the deaths of his friends Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat he felt he had something to prove.
1989
Founds the Keith Haring Foundation
In 1989 he established the Keith Haring Foundation to provide funding to AIDS organisations and children’s programmes and to maintain and distribute his artwork. He appointed his assistant and studio manager Julia Gruen, who had worked for him since 1984, as executive director.
16 February 1990
Dies of AIDS-related complications in his apartment
On 16 February 1990 he died of AIDS-related complications at his LaGuardia Place apartment in Greenwich Village. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in a field near Bowers, Pennsylvania, just south of his hometown of Kutztown.
16. februar 1990
Died
