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Haring Is Caring

It’s not clear that we need another Keith Haring show, given how many have been held recently. But we’re lucky to have this one, opening tomorrow at the Brant Foundation, which pushes beyond the deeply familiar aspects of his work.

Keith Haring
“Haring has the perfect line,” curator Dieter Buchhart observed, noting how the artist was able to work fluidly without much preparation. “He never did sketches. He just stood before the work" and created complex but fully realized images with nary a mistake. Photo: Ozier Muhammad/Newsday RM/Getty Images
Marion Maneker
March 10, 2026

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A show simply titled Keith Haring, which focuses on the artist’s formative years in New York, opens tomorrow at the Brant Foundation in the East Village. Organized by independent Vienna-based curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer, the exhibit is a meditation on the period from 1980 to 1984, when Haring was making his famous subway drawings, tarps, and a number of other innovative works relying on unconventional materials like Day-Glo paint. The husband-and-wife duo have said they wanted to focus on the formation of Haring’s now-famous and universally recognized visual language, and to dig into the origins of his iconography.