Keith Haring

Haring became visible in New York by making quick chalk drawings on blank black advertising panels in subway stations. Those drawings helped create the bold line style later seen in his Radiant Baby, barking dog, and dancing figure images.

Crack is Wack is a 1986 mural in East Harlem that Haring painted as an anti-crack message during New York's drug crisis. The phrase became one of his most recognizable public works.

Yes. Haring opened the Pop Shop in SoHo in 1986 so posters, shirts, and buttons could make his imagery accessible outside galleries.

Haring was diagnosed with AIDS in the late 1980s and created work addressing the crisis directly. He founded the Keith Haring Foundation in 1989, the year before his death in 1990.