Reading Pride Celebration

Keith Haring had a seemingly inexhaustible supply of just the right energy: a radiant, joyful enthusiasm that he shared with unflagging vitality first on the streets of New York and then on the world stage.

Like Andy Warhol, whom he revered and later befriended, Haring was the visual artist as social phenomenon, connecting the gay scene to hip-hop, Madonna to museum culture, the democratic street to the rarefied art world. If his story is only marginal to the history of art, it looms large in the cultural history of our time, which Haring (who died of AIDS in 1990, at 31) saw far too little of.

“The Universe of Keith Haring,” a documentary by the filmmaker Christina Clausen, is a loving if routine primer on this bright young man from Kutztown, Pa., who moved to New York to study art and paint the town red. His legacy is resurrected through colorful archival footage and remembered by friends and admirers like the artists Kenny Scharf and Yoko Ono, the gallery owners Jeffrey Deitch and Tony Shafrazi and the choreographer Bill T. Jones.

Coming to the Goggle Theater May 1st to May 7th
Runtime: 90 min
http://www.centrepark.com/goggletheatre.html

Labels: film