Keith Haring: Art is For Everyone at The Broad

Feeling both familiar and fresh, the Keith Haring show at The Broad will zap you back to the 80s while also reminding you that the issues the activist artist cared about remain just as current today.

Keith Haring: Art is for Everyone at the Broad pops brightly and the surprise is that it packs more of a punch than its colorful trappings suggest. With 120 pieces of art, the sheer volume of work offers a healthy primer on the brief, brilliant career of an artist who died in 1990 at 31 from complications of AIDS. The first galleries deliver neon tones from large canvases filled with Haring’s iconic markings and familiar characters, like the barking dog. As you go deeper into the fourteen galleries in the show, exploring the other media Haring played in, the consistency of the artist’s activist mentality is revealed.