Keith Haring: The Political Line

Andy Mouse, 1985.

“Haring understood that art was for everybody—he fought for the individual and against dictatorship, racism and capitalism. He was no utopian, but he had a dream that ‘nothing is an end, because it always can be the basis for something new and different.’” – Dieter Buchhart, guest exhibition curator

The Political Line will feature more than 130 works of art including large scale paintings (on tarpaulins and canvases), sculptures and a number of the artist’s subway drawings, among other works. The exhibition will create a narrative that explores the artist’s responses to nuclear disarmament, racial inequality, the excesses of capitalism, environmental degradation and others issues of deep personal concern to the artist. Learn more.

Please note that the exhibition contains certain artworks that are adult in nature; images included on this site may be violent, sexual, and/or political in content.

This exhibition opens on Saturday at San Francisco's de Young Museum of Fine Arts - if you're passing.

If not, there's plenty to see and read - and, sadly, fittingly with the commercial whoring of Haring, buy - on their website.

A prophetic Reagan: Ready To Kill, 1980.

Update: Guardian review of the show.

Coming Out Day: The Telegraph Celebrates

The Daily Telegraph mark National Coming Out Day - actually an American thing, but do what thou wilt - with an article illustrated with this gay-shaming photo closeting a gay couple by not show their faces.

Genius.

If you're a gay teen who's thinking about coming out to your parents today, Fagburn heartily recommends baking them an 'I Love Penis' cake. 

PS And the ever illiterate Independent give us 10 Important Coming Outs Of The Past Year; from Tom Daley to, err, some bloke off TOWIE...

PPS Lest we forget, today is also National Sausage Pizza Day!

Thought For Coming Out Day: Alice Arnold

As for choosing today to come out? I’m not sure. It’s also Sausage Pizza Day, International Day of the Girl and World Egg Day… so many days to deal with I think I may just come out as an egg!

Alice Arnold, former BBC Radio 4 announcer and newsreader, and special lady friend of Clare Balding, now writes regularly about lesbian and gay stuff and tennis and other stuff for the Telegraph.

Do what thou wilt...

Keith Haring: A Private View

Fagburn's looking forward to the exhibition, but...
Keith Haring gave his beautiful life to public art.
So how can you have a private view?
Then auction them off to the highest bidder?
Surely his/our art is democratic or it is nothing?

National Coming Out Day: 10/11

Today is National Coming Out Day, apparently.
Though LGBT people have to come out every day.
Whatever, I like this graphic by Keith Haring.
Good day.

Update: After checking Twitter I now realise it is National Banal Sentimental Platitudes Day. I apologise unreservedly. 

Upadte 2: It's Friday, so you can all go back in again.