Thompson, Robert Farris (May 1990). "Requiem for the Degas of the B-boys". Haring.com. Art Forum . Retrieved August 17, 2016. Haring worked right up until two months before he died. Scharf was at his side when he was very ill. Haring was agitated, twitchy, with his eyes shut, and Scharf held him. “I said: ‘You can relax. Everything you’ve done is going to keep going. You’re going to continue.’ And I felt him relax. I meant it. He started something really big, and I will always honour his legacy.” Haring, Keith; Roth, Ronald C. (2006). Keith Haring: Journey of the Radiant Baby. Reading Public Museum. Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc. p.18. ISBN 978-1-59373-052-9.

Silva, Horacio (2020). "Artventure". In Cunningham Cameron, Alexandra (ed.). Willi Smith: Street Couture. New York: Rizzoli Electa. p.179. ISBN 978-0-8478-6819-3.Wheeler, André-Naquian (November 2, 2017). "an oral history of club 57, the legendary 80s underground art club". i-D . Retrieved March 11, 2021. Haring lived and worked in New York from 1978 until his death, aged 31, from an Aids-related illness. In his final few years, he was invited all over the world to make work, and if you want to see some real-life Keith Haring art, you still can. There is a mural in Pisa, on the side of the church of Sant’Antonio, which he made in the last year of his life. There is one at the Carmine public swimming pool on Clarkson Street in Greenwich Village, New York, painted by Haring in one day in 1987. There is public work by Haring in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Antwerp, Berlin, Paris, Melbourne; on hospitals, at schools (often made with children), in an LGBT community services centre.

Anderson, James (January 27, 2020). "7 of Madonna's most iconic outfits". i-D . Retrieved March 11, 2021. In 1989, Haring established the Keith Haring Foundation to provide funding and imagery to AIDS organizations and children's programs. The foundation's stated goal is to keep his wishes and expand his legacy by providing grants and funding to non-profit organizations that educate disadvantaged youths and inform the public about HIV and AIDS. It also shares his work and contains information about his life. [122] The foundation also supports arts and educational institutions by funding exhibitions, educational programs, and publications. [122] In 2010, The foundation partnered with the AIDS Service Center NYC to open the Keith Haring ASC Harlem Center to provide HIV peer education and access to care services in Harlem. [123] Accolades and tributes [ edit ]

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Keith Haring's Mural: Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA". Barcelona Lowdown. November 4, 2018 . Retrieved March 13, 2021. Who is Keith Haring and where was Keith Haring born? How did Keith Haring die and why was his oeuvre so important to the underground artistic community and activists alike? In this article, we will aim to cover the life of Keith Haring the artist as well as the history behind Keith Haring’s artworks. Nationality Keith Haring's New York" Comes to NYLS | Community News". News and Events . Retrieved January 17, 2019. [ permanent dead link] I hated how it totally skips out how he met up with all the right people and got famous, skipping from being in a couple of local galleries to being completely famous? What happened?

Haring painted a mural for the traditional White House Easter Egg Roll in April 1988. Due to his health problems and the loss of his colleagues Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, he believed he had something to accomplish. To increase awareness of the HIV pandemic, Haring created the Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA fresco in Barcelona’s dangerous Barrio Chino area in February of 1989.Carnivele, Gary (July 2, 2016). "Second LGBT Honorees Selected for San Francisco's Rainbow Honor Walk". We The People . Retrieved August 12, 2019. The Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, established in 2007 in Hokuto, Yamanashi, Japan, is an art museum exhibiting exclusively the artworks of Haring. [189] [190] Authentication issues [ edit ]