MOCA ‘Streets’ Exhibit Incomplete Without Merch

The Art in the Streets exhibit now comes with graffiti fashions. Ten MOCA x Levi’s jean jackets feature MOCA-exhibited Andre, Chaz Bojorquez, CRASH, KR, Neckface, Lady Pink, REVOK,  Shepard Fairey, Kenny Scharf (yes, it’s the mural) and Keith Haring (sans consent, obviously). Read more »

Phillips de Pury’s ’80s Night


Phillips de Pury’s upcoming Dec. 17 auction highlights are chock-full of ’80s goodness: big boomboxes, art boobs, Basquiat, T-KID, Ghost, and Cope2 tags on NYC subway maps, Keith Haring matryoshkas, Natasha Kinksi in her prime, a cool kid (note: not a yuppie) from Robert Longo, Kenny Scharf’s sardined color blobs (like the mural) and a crazy olde phone. Also, lots of pretentious furniture from before I was born.

Want a Bargain Keith Haring? Buy This House in Philly!

So you want a piece of street art without the inconvenience of chiseling out and towing giant chunks of cinder block walls? Greg Allen rustled up this massive, rickety 3-bedroom fixer-upper in Philadelphia. Its wall is one giant Keith Haring mural. The house is going for $100,000. Thrifty.

Get Laid With Keith Haring Condoms, Now in Color

This holiday season, brighten up your dong by wrapping it in red, blue and yellow. Keith Haring Foundation and Proper Attire teamed up again to bring you arty condoms in color — the festive way not to get HIV. Also, they might get you laid. Pop by the MoCA store with your date for a three-pack garlanded with Haring art and you’ll instantly look cultured, considerate and suave. Ooh!

Little Kids Are Going to Graffiti Summer Camps Now

There’s a Graffiti and Street Art Camp in Miami this summer. Pay $300 and your five-to-nine-year-olds will spend a week going on mural-sighting field trips and learning about Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, color theory, composition and running really fast when you get caught doing said graffiti. Just kidding. But only about that last part. [Insert very clever pun on the word "toy" here.]

Australians Consider Saving Keith Haring Mural

“It’s the only permanent thing that I did while I was in Australia,” said Keith Haring in 1984 after painting a mural in a Melbourne suburb and art peeps are trying to keep it that way. Sounds noble, as long as they don’t dare repaint it, an option which has been debated. Read more »

Mike Leavitt’s Art Army Action Figures

Mike Leavitt has scaled down some familiar artists. Behold, the Art Army: a bizarre Mark Ryden, a dissected Damien Hist, a masked Banksy, a be-bucketed Shepard Fairey and more. Read more »

That Keith Haring exhibit promised by California’s Carmichael Gallery is “postponed indefinitely.” Did someone want the blow-up doll back?

Keith Haring at Carmichael Gallery

Twenty years since Keith Haring’s memorial service in NYC, Culver City’s Carmichael Gallery celebrates the legendary Pop Art graffiti artist with the exhibit “Keith Haring – Urban Legend.” On display: 20 original works on canvas and paper, as well as vintage street signs and a vinyl blow up “Radian Baby Doll” from Haring’s 27th birthday party. UPDATE: Postponed indefinitely. “Urban Legend,” Keith Haring, May 8 – May 29, Carmichael Gallery, Culver City

Dirty Jeff Koons, Dead Animals and Nazis Are 18+ in Canada

Unless you have a strong tolerance for gross/corny, looking at a plastic Jeff Koons getting nasty isn’t recommended for any age group. To see it at Canada’s National Gallery, you’ll need ID proving you’re 18 or older. Read more »