"Keith Haring: 1978-1982" at the Brooklyn Museum focuses on early career of Keith Haring

Artist Keith Haring sits in his Broome Street apartment in New York, in 1983. AP Photo. By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press  - Art Daily News NEW YORK (AP).- The bohemian atmosphere of downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s had a huge impact on the art of Keith Haring, from his impromptu subway chalk drawings to his maze-like abstract paintings. In a new exhibition that focuses on the late artist's early career, Haring's creative energy is instantly felt through his seemingly pulsating kaleidoscope-like designs. "Keith Haring: 1978-1982" at the Brooklyn Museum includes 155 works on paper, 30 black-and-white subway drawings, seven experimental videos and rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition fliers and documentary photographs. It covers the years when the artist was 20 to 24 years old. Arranged chronologically, it traces the development of his abstract visual language, beginning with 25 red gouache ... More