Selling Haring's gift.When the late gay artist Keith Haring Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was a pre-eminent artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York street culture of the 1980s. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania but grew up in Kutztown and was interested in art from an early age. painted a mural mural Painting applied to and made integral with the surface of a wall or ceiling. Its roots can be found in the universal desire that led prehistoric peoples to create cave paintings—the desire to decorate their surroundings and express their ideas and beliefs. for the South of Market Child Care Center in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden in 1985, his only instruction was that the mural should benefit the children of South of Market. Now the center says it is using the painting to do just that. The 80-foot mural, painted on several removable panels and appraised by Christie's auction house al seven figures, will be auctioned off to fund the cost of relocating the center. |
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