Keith Haring Acrobats
About the Exhibition
Keith Haring (1958–1990, b. Reading, PA) conceived Acrobats (1986) one year after the first exhibition of his freestanding steel pieces at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1985. Depicting two figures balanced in a remarkable gravity-defying pose, Acrobats is a work of incredible simplicity and vitality. Haring, a quintessentially urban artist, always sought to engage the public directly, from his earliest chalk drawings in New York City subway stations to his final mural in a maternity hospital in Monte Carlo. In its temporary home in Battery Park City, Acrobats continues Haring’s enduring vision of inserting art into the environs of our everyday lives.
Photo Gallery
Keith Haring’s Acrobats at Battery Park City is a collaboration between the Public Art Fund, the Keith Haring Foundation, and the Battery Park City Authority.
Special thanks to Deitch Projects, New York.
About the Keith Haring Foundation
The Keith Haring Foundation was established in 1989, one year before Haring’s death at age 31. The Foundation supports AIDS-related and children’s charities, and maintains the largest repository of materials on Keith Haring. In collaboration with museums, galleries, publishers and art education programmers worldwide, the Foundation is able to provide information and artwork to the public that might otherwise remain unexplored in archives. www.haring.com
About the Battery Park City Authority
The Battery Park City Authority is a public benefit corporation established by the state legislature in 1968 to develop and manage 92 acres of land at the southern tip of Manhattan across from the World Trade Center site. Battery Park City is home to the world renowned Winter Garden, the Irish Hunger Memorial, and the NYC Police Memorial. The Authority received the 2002 Doris Freedman Award for excellence in public art. www.batteryparkcity.org
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