Hartje Gallery loans two Haring pieces to Brattleboro Museum
The Hartje Gallery loaned two works by Keith Haring to the show “From Street to Studio” at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vt. From August 11 – December 21, 2007. The exhibition also features the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Scot Borofsky, Brian Gormley and Ken Hiratsuka. “In the early 1980s, young people, with art training or not, took to making art on the streets of New York City’s East Village. The street scene quickly moved to the center of the art world when urban poet and wall writer Jean-Michell Basquiat and stealth subway artist Keith Haring were featured in successive Whitney Biennial exhibits. They both died within a decade of their early successes…”