There is one at the Carmine public swimming pool on Clarkson Street in Greenwich Village, New York, painted by Haring in one day in 1987.
There is a mural in Pisa, on the side of the church of Sant’Antonio, which he made in the last year of his life. In his final few years, he was invited all over the world to make work, and if you want to see some real-life Keith Haring art, you still can. Haring lived and worked in New York from 1978 until his death, aged 31, from an Aids-related illness. But it was also a tremendous, beautiful response to the activism of the time… the really unusual thing about Keith is that he felt he could be of service.” “The vernacular of his art was so appealing, with a quality of entertainment. “He was unique,” says Mare169, real name Carlos Rodriguez, a graffiti artist who worked with Haring in the 1980s. “Keith was totally confident, that’s one of the reasons why his art is so strong: the confidence in his line, the conviction, everything about it.” “His line was astonishing,” says artist Kenny Scharf, Haring’s contemporary and friend, of the way Haring drew. Photograph: Richard Levine/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Stock Photo Haring’s Crack Is Wack mural, painted in 1986 in Harlem River Park, New York, during restoration.
