Keith Haring was born in Pennsylvania in 1958; at age 19, he moved to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts, pursuing his dream of becoming an artist.
In New York, he discovered the thriving alternative art world of the downtown streets,subways and nightclubs. Haring soon became one of the best-known artists responding to the urban culture of the 1980s. Drawing in white chalk on the black paper then used to cover expired advertising panels in the subway stations, Haring developed vo
