Graffiti in New York City
Graffiti in New York City has had a substantial local, national, and international influence.
Heavily tagged New York City Subway car in 1973
Bus129 by DONDI on a New York City Subway car, 1984
Storefront graffiti of a restaurant in Chinatown, Manhattan
Graffiti on the Lower East Side
Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997.
Haring painting a mural at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1986
Barking dog sculpture by Haring in Dortmund, Germany
Haring painting a mural at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1986
Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA (1989) mural near the Museum of Modern Arts, Barcelona, Spain
