Radiant Waves: Film and the Art of Keith Haring curated by Hilton Als

In conjunction with the exhibition Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody, the Walker invited The New Yorker writer Hilton Als to curate a film series responding to the life and art of Haring. Investigating an amalgamation of influences and connections through cinema, the series traces a journey through the long-lost NYC that Haring was such a beloved part of.

“Like many young artists who grew up in the nineteen sixties and seventies, Haring was as entranced by the show business in serious art—as exemplified by his high regard for Andy Warhol—as he was by the art in show biz. This series not only touches on Haring’s interest in race and queerness, but the diva as film auteur, and the glamour and danger inherent in the worlds where art, fashion, and politics converge.”

—Hilton Als