Upcoming at Factory Fresh:

A MAZE

STIKMAN, LA II , CELSO, INFINITY

(& introducing: C-Beauty)

November 14 – November 30, 2008

Opening Reception – November 14 from 6pm -10pm

I'm stoked to check out Keith Haring's The Ten Commandments at Deitch Projects this weekend. Haring semms to be quite in vogue lately. Earlier this year, Deitch restored Haring's short-lived 1982 Houston Street and Bowery mural:




Then just last week The Universe of Keith Haring opened at Cinema Village. From the Times review:

Keith Haring was not a great artist. He might not even have been a very good one. But he was the right person in the right place at the right time, and he 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.

Madonna called him a friend back when that would have been cool. The guy was like a neon reflection of New York, an illuminated text; the city glowed in and through him. Sometimes this is how the city feels to me: