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Keith Haring. Heart. Untitled (Dogs Dancing). “3 Eyed Man”.
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“Doing things in public was not a new idea. The climate of art in New York at that time was certainly moving in that direction. It seemed obvious to me when I saw the first empty subway panel that this was the perfect situation. The advertisements that fill every subway platform are changed periodically. When there aren't enough new ads, a black paper panel is substituted. I remember noticing a panel in the Times Square station and immediately going aboveground and buying chalk. After the first drawing, things just fell into place. I began drawing in the subways as a hobby on my way to work. I had to ride the subways often and would do a drawing while waiting for a train. In a few weeks, I started to get responses from people who saw me doing it.” -Keith Haring
“Art is within us all. From some it just bursts forth more openly.”
In New York's Harlem, the "Crack is Wack" mural Haring painted as a street artist in 1986 is still intact.