Keith Haring Bathroom

Installation view of keith haring once upon a time 1989 at the lgbt community center manhattan.

Keith haring bathroom. Haring s bathroom mural once upon a time which was famously painted just nine months before his death from aids in 1990 was a beacon of sex positive acceptance during a time when the lgbt community needed it most. Courtesy of the lgbt community center national history archive. Artist keith haring who died of aids in 1990 after his eroto squiggly pop art became a high ticket craze would have been 49 last friday.

Masterpieces don t often end up in public bathrooms. Were he alive he d be able to tell us if he and not. One of keith haring s final goodbyes to new york before aids took him from this world in 1990 was perhaps one of his most personal portraying the artist s celebration of sexual freedom and an explicit and energetic commemoration of the 20 th anniversary of the stonewall riots.

Painted in 1989 just nine months before his death the black and white mural snakes around the bathroom of the lesbian gay bisexual and transgender community center its location chosen purposefully to reflect. Know before you go the bathroom is wheelchair accessible.