... Fun Gallery Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat “Beat Bop ” Area installation ...

... Club 57 Ann Magnuson Keith Haring Kenny Scharf Anita Sarko performance art ...

... Diego Cortez New York/New Wave Beyond Words Patti Astor Fun Gallery Keith Haring, Wild Style ...

... The opening months of 1981 witnessed an intensification of the conversation that had begun to take place between downtown artists, new wave musicians, and graffiti writers. Diego Cortez curated the New York/New Wave exhibition at PS1. Keith Haring curated the Lower Manhattan Drawing Show...

..., alternative art shows, and special parties that attracted a crowd of students from the School of Visual Art, among them Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf. The venue’s culture drew heavily on irony and kitsch. As with the Mudd Club, dancing took on a primary position, even though the venue’s roots were in punk...

.... The next show featured Keith Haring, whose career continued on its upward trajectory and included a collaborative project with the U.S. choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones. Basquiat, meanwhile, released “Beat Bop,” a ten-minute experimental rap track, yet flickered in and out of the party scene until...

..., among them Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf. The venue’s culture drew heavily on irony and kitsch. As with the Mudd Club, dancing took on a primary position, even though the venue’s roots were in punk. Steve Mass couldn’t straightforwardly ignore developments at Club 57. Beginning in the summer of 1980 he...

... York/New Wave exhibition at PS1. Keith Haring curated the Lower Manhattan Drawing Show at the Mudd Club. Haring then invited Brathwaite and Futura 2000 to curate a Beyond Words graffiti show at the Mudd Club; Bronx DJ Afrika Bambaataa played at the opening-night party. Meanwhile Basquiat quit Gray...

..., selling every piece but one before opening night. The next show featured Keith Haring, whose career continued on its upward trajectory and included a collaborative project with the U.S. choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones. Basquiat, meanwhile, released “Beat Bop,” a ten-minute experimental rap track...