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| System ID: | jl-cc31f022f3e3bccf4ac412c898a2e512 |
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| Title: | Voice of the Street: Keith Haring's Subway Drawings review |
| Link: | Original article on ca.news.yahoo.com |
| Region: | US |
| Topics: | subway; art; voice; work; moco; figures; street; sell; image; keith; review; york; drawings; haring; human; harings; Keith Haring; New York City Subway; Rapid transit; Run-DMC; New York Dolls; Anti-authoritarianism; Retrospective; Semiotics; Pop art; Uniqlo; Ramones; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Grandmaster Flash; Patti Smith; The Velvet Underground; Street art; Andy Warhol; Experimental music; Taxi (TV series); Yahoo!; Consciousness; Popular culture; Google |
| Datetime: | 3/25/2026, 10:39:59 AM |
| Summary: | This exhibition at the Moco Museum in Marble Arch harks back to when Haring first literally made his mark on the city. (PR handout)Returning art to the peopleIt sets up a show which nicely gets across the spirit of Haring. There aren’t hidden secrets or things that you’re supposed to understand.” In the work itself there’s a playful cheek, and a compulsive need to bring some human joy to the sell, sell, sell of the ad boardings. On another a Dune worm-type monster, with a computer for a head, also has mechanical claws which are snipping his human figures in two. His drawings would frequently interact with the ads around them, lampooning them, disrupting their cold money-making machinations… stealing back the human gaze.... |
