Botchway blacklivesmatter (Divine Protesting) (2020)
©Kwesi Botchway
A new show at the Gold Coast’s HOTA attests to the ongoing influence of pop art today.
Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines at the NGV International leaves out important information about who Haring was as a person and, therefore, as an artist.
© Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York © Keith Haring Foundation Photo: Tom Ross
At the National Gallery of Victoria’s summer blockbuster, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines, Haring’s sexuality is obscured.
Crossing Lines, ‘a raw and uncompromising show’, opens with this reproduction of Haring’s creation on the NGV Waterwall, which he painted in 1984.
NGV/© Keith Haring Foundation Photo: Tom Ross
Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines may well be the riskiest exhibition the National Gallery of Victoria has staged in its more than 150-year history.
15th Street Platform with Writer, NYC.
Jon Naar/Jon Naar Photography
Perhaps it is time to return to the belief that graffiti is a political act. Maybe then we can embrace it as an agent for social change.