Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Keith Haring: Crack Is Wack


It has been 23 years since artist Keith Haring illegally painted this iconic "Crack Is Wack" mural in Harlem River Park along the FDR Drive. Haring died of AIDS in 1990, but much of his public art lives on. In fact, the NYC Parks Department allowed the mural to be restored and repaired in 2007, and renamed the area the Crack Is Wack Playground. See my previous Keith Haring post HERE.