Critical DMs: Keith Haring at the Walker Art Center

Critical DMs are lightly edited Slack conversations by members of the MPR News arts team about Minnesota art and culture. This week, arts editor Max Sparber and senior arts reporter and Critic Alex V. Cipolle discuss “Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody,” which opened Saturday at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The exhibit is a retrospective of the prolific pop artist who created iconic art filled with vibrating, heavily outlined figures: crawling babies, UFOs, television sets and pyramids. In 1990, Haring died at age 31 of complications from AIDS. This exhibit was first organized by The Broad in Los Angeles and offers a career-wide retrospective including Harin’s early work when he used chalk to create graffiti-style images on unused New York subway posters. In this iteration, the exhibit also includes work from a residency the artist did at the Walker Art Center in 1984 that included the creation of an original mural. MPR News is your trusted resource for the news you need. With your support, MPR News brings accessible, courageous journalism and authentic conversation to everyone – free of paywalls and barriers. Your gift makes a difference. Cipolle: Okay. Critical DM time. I feel like I need to...