The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ‘self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses.
— Keith Haring Modern

Pop art, activism

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1980

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/may/19/keith-haring-artist-more-th…

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