In celebration of the opening of the exhibition Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody, join us for a panel with Gil Vazquez, Ann Magnuson, and Muna Tseng, moderated by Kimberly Drew and introduced by exhibition curator Sarah Loyer of The Broad, Los Angeles. The discussion will introduce several facets of the artist’s wide-ranging practice and consider his influence on contemporary culture. With an artistic language that moved seamlessly from the underground into mass cultural prominence, Haring’s career traversed several artistic and social worlds. Panelists will reflect on Haring’s radical vision for art’s place in the public sphere as well as his diverse connections in a cross-disciplinary scene composed of musicians, activists, designers, actors, dancers, filmmakers, and critics.
Free tickets to the talk are available from the Main Lobby desk starting at 1 pm.
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Bios
Kimberly Drew is a curator and cultural critic. Drew received her BA from Smith College in Art History and Africana studies. Drew’s writing has appeared in Vogue, Vanity Fair, and them. Drew works on the curatorial team at Pace Gallery. Her books Black Futures, co-edited with J Wortham, and This is What I Know About Art are both available wherever books are sold. You can follow her at @museummammy on Instagram and Twitter.
Sarah Loyer is the curator of Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody (2023) and editor in chief of the exhibition catalogue. Loyer has curated numerous exhibitions, including This Is Not America’s Flag (2022) and The Broad’s presentation of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983 (2019), organized by Tate Modern, London, for which she received a Curatorial Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. Loyer has a master’s degree in public art studies from the University of Southern California and a BA in media studies and cultural studies from the New School.
Ann Magnuson (US, born 1956, lives in Los Angeles) is an artist, writer, actor, performer, and musician. Magnuson was one of the organizers of the legendary Club 57 (recently celebrated in a major MoMA exhibition, which she guest curated); was the first performance curator at PS1 (now PS1/MOMA); and was a major player in the Downtown art and music scene of the 1980s. Besides her performance art, Magnuson has appeared in many films and TV shows alongside stars including Harrison Ford, John Malkovich, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Jamie Lee Curtis, and David Bowie. She starred in the film Making Mr. Right, which was recently released by Kino Lorber with a commentary by Magnuson and director Susan Seidelman. Combining her skills in writing, performance, and collaboration, her musical career has been wide-ranging with her songs and spoken word pieces at the heart of the post-punk Pulsallama, the faux-metal Vulcan Death Grip, the “psycho-psychedelic” band Bongwater, and three solo albums. Last year she released the country-folk song “Ghost Cat,” backed with musicians from her native West Virginia (and featuring harmonica from Charlie’s McCoy). A self-described “multimedia shapeshifter,” Magnuson is currently at work on new art, video, music, and writing projects, including new music from Vulcan Death Grip.
Muna Tseng is an acclaimed choreographer and dancer from New York. In 1982 she collaborated with Keith Haring on Epochal Songs, a dance to world peace with more than 40 drawings projected to accompany her dancers. In 2022, the dance was reimagined with the original drawings animated on 68 LED screens behind Muna in a solo dance, and was presented in a Haring exhibition in the Netherlands. She is the creative director of her late-brother Tseng Kwong Chi’s photography estate. Kwong Chi was Haring’s official photographer throughout their decade-long creative output years in the 1980s. Creative reinventions from archives is her constant passion.
Gil Vazquez has been involved as a trustee on the board of directors of the Keith Haring Foundation as a founding member since its inception in 1990, initially as the Vice President and later as the President, Acting Director, and now as Executive Director. Gil befriended Haring in 1988, and has dedicated his life to enhancing the artist’s artistic and philanthropic legacy.
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