BBC Arena – Keith Haring Street Art Boy (2020)

Keith Haring blazed a trail through the legendary art scene of 1980s New York and revolutionised the worlds of pop culture and fine art.
Told using previously recorded interviews that form the narrative of the documentary – is the definitive story of the artist in his own words.

The film also includes exclusive unprecedented access to the Haring Foundation’s archives, including Haring’s encyclopaedic collection of polaroids – and features everyone from Andy Warhol to Madonna and Grace Jones, capturing the wild, creative energy behind some of the most recognisable art of the past 50 years.

Following Keith Haring’s diagnosis with Aids in 1989, he asked writer and art critic John Gruen to write his biography. For five days in the summer of 1989, Keith gave Gruen in intimate and candid detail the story of his life and these interviews are included in the film.

Haring’s closest friends, family and collaborators – from the sleepy Pennsylvania of his youth to the mythic clubs of gay New York – share their revelatory encounters, touching poignantly on the Aids crisis, which made a tragic icon of this life-affirming artist.