Keith haring gay

But I had to have a gallery just to give me distance.

Was it hard to accept that the paintings werecommodities?
Yes, but it’s not that way for everyone. I’m a complete workaholic. I was painting walls and repairing the roof and things. The cops never knew how to deal with it. Throughout the course of his career, Haring worked on murals, sculptures, and prints as well, and he had his first solo exhibition in New York by 1981.

In the same year, newspapers began reporting on an unknown illness that would become the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Back in the 1980s, there weren’t Zoom meetings or Instagram stories but walkie-talkies, floppy disks, and Mario games. You know, it’s just being in the wrong place at the wrong rime. Before they go, they swarm around the artist, asking him to draw on and sign their hats. I came home stoned out of my mind on downs. Although Keith Haring’s life was tragically cut short by AIDS-related complications 34 years ago, his legacy continues on.

I spend enough time enjoying, too. At first you are more in awe of things like that, but you adapt really quickly.

What do you think was the basis of your friendship with Warhol?
Andy always had young people around him at all points of his life. Maybe the most important was that I learned about William Burroughs. He knew what the risks were.

You get thrust into this position of attention and wealth that you don’t necessarily know that you deserve in terms of payment. People have a hard time believing that; they have the media image of him that was totally damaged by the whole Edie Sedgwick thing – Andy as a bloodsucking vampire taking advantage of people and throwing them away.

With the thought of – of summing up. We started talking, going out. I decided to make a major break. Today, our world is troubled by new infectious diseases and subsequent economic uncertainty. I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done. He had a way of sort of making things happen around him.