For 28 years Planned Parenthood of New York City’s Project Street Beat has been providing health care, education, and support services throughout New York City through its innovative street-based outreach strategy.
The Keith Haring Foundation proudly supports Project Street Beat and Planned Parenthood!
25th Out of the Darkness Gathering and Candlelight March for World AIDS Day
Come celebrate pride this Sunday, June 26, with the biggest LGBT pride celebration in the world! Everyone is invited to share in free and inclusive events that commemorate and celebrate diversity and equality.
The march begins at noon on Sunday at 36th Street and Fifth Avenue, and works its way downtown to Christopher and Greenwich Streets in the West Village. Also on Sunday is PrideFest, Heritage of Pride’s annual LGBT street fair.
For complete information, parade route, and a full list of events visit NYC Pride.
Photo: Carlo Favero
Congratulations to Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, recipients of the 2016 – 2017 Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at Bard College.
Hilal and Petti, architects and critics based in Beit Sahour, Palestinian Territories, have been selected as the third winner of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Made possible through a five year-grant from the Keith Haring Foundation, the Haring Fellowship is an annual award for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at CCS Bard and the Human Rights Project. Their one-year appointment will begin in September 2016. Hilal and Petti succeed New Delhi–based artist and curator Shuddhabrata Sengupta who held the Fellowship during 2015-16.
For more information about Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, and the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College, please see the full CCS Bard announcement here.
This photo shows party-goers at the second annual Party of Life, hosted by Keith Haring in May of 1985 at the newly re-opened Palladium nightclub on East 14th Street in New York City. 5,000 people were sent puzzles in a box as an invite to the party, the box also contained buttons that attendees had to wear in order to gain entrance. Today, May 4th, would’ve been his 58th birthday.
Please visit the Human Rights Campaign website to learn more about National Coming Out Day.
Visual AIDS presents the exhibition Party Out of Bounds: Nightlife as Activism Since 1980 opening September 18th at La MaMa Galleria.
The exhibition focuses on the intersection of the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis and nightlife from the 1980s to the present, and showcases the transformative possibilities of nightlife as an alternative form of activism. Featuring artists and collaborators working in a wide variety of mediums including photography, video, painting, sculpture, drawing and site-specific installations, Party Out Of Bounds presents both past and present nightlife scenes. The exhibition also highlights archival materials including flyers by Keith Haring and David Wojnarowicz, and ephemera from clubs that merged activism, art, performance and parties.
Visual AIDS is a not-for-profit arts organization that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. Visit the Visual AIDS website to learn more about this exhibition and all of the other amazing work that they do.
Exhibition information can also be found on the La MaMa website – another incredible and storied not-for-profit cultural organization.
The exhibition runs through October 10th.
Philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad have long been supporters of the arts, and have built a new home for their collection of post-war and contemporary art, which includes the work of Keith Haring. The Broad opens on September 20th entrance to the museum is free.
Read Holland Cotter’s recent review of The Broad in the NY Times here. Visit The Broad website to learn more about it’s collection and it’s mission to expand access to, and engagement with, contemporary art.
In 1988 Keith visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and wrote the following in his journal:
We all went to visit the Peace Museum & Memorial, which is a vivid documentation of the horrors of Hiroshima. It is impossible to imagine the magnitude of the bombing until you personally experience this museum. I had, of course, read about and seen some photos of Hiroshima, but I never felt it like this. It is incredible that this destruction was caused by a bomb that was made in 1945, and that the level of sophistication and number of nuclear warheads has increased since then. Who could ever want this to happen again? To anyone? The frightening thing is that people debate and discuss the arms race as if they were playing with toys. All of these men should have to come here, not to a bargaining table in some safe European country.
