If recent news is any measure (see: Brad Gooch’s Keith Haring biography released in March, Uniqlo’s Andy Warhol x KAWS collab and the family suing a Miami art gallery over fake Warhols), it’s clear interest in pop artists Andy Warhol and Keith Haring hasn’t cooled much. They continue to be influencers posthumously—even if the art world has moved on, it would seem the public is willing to consume work by these artists in perpetuity. During my research into Haring, Google’s ‘People also ask’ results included this query: “Why is Keith Haring stuff everywhere?”
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Currently in Munich at Museum Brandhorst, “Andy Warhol & Keith Haring: Party of Life” demonstrates the persistent power of their distinct flavors of Pop, and fetes how these two friends created a lively world that extended beyond themselves and the borders of Manhattan. Museum Brandhorst is the first institution to bring these two artists together in a reunion of sorts: a snapshot of New York City from another age transported to Bavaria.
Franziska Linhardt, one of the curators of “Party of Life” told Observer that the two artists met “in New York in the early 1980s, and this exhibition reflects the overlap of their lives during that time. The title is borrowed from the theme of Keith Haring’s birthday parties and evokes the cosmos of the 1980s, capturing the........