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Botchway blacklivesmatter (Divine Protesting) (2020) ©Kwesi Botchway

February 22, 2023

Did pop art have its heyday in the 1960s? Perhaps. But it is also utterly contemporary

Chari Larsson, Griffith University

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

January 12, 2020

Why did the NGV put Keith Haring back in the closet?

Marcus O'Donnell, Deakin University

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

December 2, 2019

‘Nothing quite prepares you for the impact of this exhibition’: Haring Basquiat at the NGV

Sasha Grishin, Australian National University

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

December 13, 2017

On the death of graffiti photographer Jon Naar: is graffiti art or politics?

Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Central Lancashire

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.

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