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Broad exhibit showcases Keith Haring, innovative¹ pop culture artists from the '80s

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Keith Haring was known for his colorful graffiti-style art and his AIDS activism. The late artist's work and life are the focus of a new museum exhibit in Los Angeles.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

A Los Angeles museum is exhibiting the work of Keith Haring. He's an artist whose work many people have seen, even if they only vaguely³ know the name. The exhibition serves as a reminder⁴ of Haring's pop culture talents, and NPR's Mandalit del Barco had a look around.

MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE⁵: The show "Keith Haring: Art Is For Everybody" immediately transports you to New York City in the 1980s with music from his old mix tapes on speakers above. It opens with photos and a CBS News clip from 1982 of the then-24-year-old artist working furtively⁶ underground.

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CHARLES OSGOOD: He stalks the New York City subways, waiting for his chance to strike.

DEL BARCO: Inspired by hip-hop graffiti artists who spray painted subway cars, Haring used chalk on empty black advertising⁷ panels on the subway platforms. He drew simple, outlined figures - most often a crawling, radiant baby and a barking dog.

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KEITH HARING: You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that you're supposed to understand.

OSGOOD: But he's got to be careful because technically⁸, what he's doing is illegal graffiti. Sometimes he is arrested. Haring doesn't think he is defacing anything. He believes it is art, and many subway riders seem to agree.

DEL BARCO: Haring's art was popular aboveground, too, on street murals, on T-shirts, buttons and other merch sold at his famous Pop Shop in Soho and on big, plastic tarps sold for millions. The Broad Museum has recreated his first major gallery show, says curator Sarah Loyer.

SARAH LOYER: You can see in this painting, for example, break dancing figures. We have one spinning on his head with these lines showing motion. So they're really joyous⁹ imagery.

DEL BARCO: Haring's work fills nine gallery rooms at the Broad and includes a mini Statue of Liberty he decorated with graffiti artist Angel Ortiz and pottery¹⁰ embellished¹¹ with his own hieroglyphics¹².

KENNY SCHARF: He created his own language with his own symbols, which is genius.

DEL BARCO: Kenny Scharf was another iconic artist of the 1980s. He became close friends with Haring when they studied at the School of Visual Arts.

SCHARF: It was amazing to witness 'cause I was his roommate at that time. And when he started doing those drawings, it was like he was everywhere.

DEL BARCO: Haring was also a huge fixture¹³ in downtown New York nightlife. He partied with people like Madonna, Andy Warhol and Fab 5 Freddy at places like Club 57, which was run by performer Ann Magnuson. Scharf and Magnuson remembered downtown New York in those days as a rundown dystopia and a creative playhouse for cutting-edge art, music and performance.

SCHARF: Daytime, nighttime, we were dancing. And Keith was very silly and fun. Like, a lot of laughing.

ANN MAGNUSON: We were in the Technicolor Munchkinland world of our own making, and then the Black Death swept in.

DEL BARCO: AIDS began to take the lives of so many friends, and Haring made it one focus of his work. He created posters and art for the activist¹⁴ group ACT UP, which demanded government help for people with HIV and AIDS. Scharf says Haring wasn't afraid to speak openly.

SCHARF: He came right out in Rolling Stone and said, I have AIDS. And, like, that was incredibly brave. Can you imagine opening about yourself as a gay person with AIDS back then? People were afraid even to be near someone with AIDS. Literally¹⁵, he was shunned¹⁶ except by his closest friends.

DEL BARCO: Haring died of complications from AIDS in 1990 when he was just 31 years old. His activist art, which went beyond AIDS, is a major focus of the new exhibition. Some of his work skewered¹⁷ President Ronald Reagan and capitalism¹⁸. He warned about nuclear weapons, and he protested apartheid in South Africa. His work remains¹⁹ relevant, says Gil Vazquez, who heads the Keith Haring Foundation.

GIL VAZQUEZ: A lot of the things that Keith spoke²⁰ up for - LGBT issues - or spoke up against - racial disparities, police brutality²¹ - these are things that persist. You know, his art still really resonates.

DEL BARCO: The new Keith Haring show is just across the street from another exhibition of the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, two groundbreaking pop culture New York artists from the '80s. They both died young but are still creating a sensation.

Mandalit del Barco, NPR News, Los Angeles.

1 innovative   

adj.革新的，新颖的，富有革新精神的

参考例句：

• Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
• He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。

2 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

3 vaguely   

adv.含糊地，暖昧地

参考例句：

• He had talked vaguely of going to work abroad.他含糊其词地说了到国外工作的事。
• He looked vaguely before him with unseeing eyes.他迷迷糊糊的望着前面，对一切都视而不见。

4 reminder   

n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示

参考例句：

• I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
• It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 furtively   

adv. 偷偷地, 暗中地

参考例句：

• At this some of the others furtively exchanged significant glances. 听他这样说，有几个人心照不宣地彼此对望了一眼。
• Remembering my presence, he furtively dropped it under his chair. 后来想起我在，他便偷偷地把书丢在椅子下。

7 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

8 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。

9 joyous   

adj.充满快乐的；令人高兴的

参考例句：

• The lively dance heightened the joyous atmosphere of the scene.轻快的舞蹈给这场戏渲染了欢乐气氛。
• They conveyed the joyous news to us soon.他们把这一佳音很快地传递给我们。

10 pottery   

n.陶器，陶器场

参考例句：

• My sister likes to learn art pottery in her spare time.我妹妹喜欢在空余时间学习陶艺。
• The pottery was left to bake in the hot sun.陶器放在外面让炎热的太阳烘晒焙干。

11 embellished   

v.美化( embellish的过去式和过去分词 )；装饰；修饰；润色

参考例句：

• The door of the old church was embellished with decorations. 老教堂的门是用雕饰美化的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The stern was embellished with carvings in red and blue. 船尾饰有红色和蓝色的雕刻图案。 来自辞典例句

12 hieroglyphics   

n.pl.象形文字

参考例句：

• Hieroglyphics are carved into the walls of the temple. 寺庙的墙壁上刻着象形文字。
• His writing is so bad it just looks like hieroglyphics to me. 他写的糟透了，对我来说就像天书一样。

13 fixture   

n.固定设备；预定日期；比赛时间；定期存款

参考例句：

• Lighting fixture must be installed at once.必须立即安装照明设备。
• The cordless kettle may now be a fixture in most kitchens.无绳电热水壶现在可能是多数厨房的固定设备。

14 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

15 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

16 shunned   

v.避开，回避，避免( shun的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She was shunned by her family when she remarried. 她再婚后家里人都躲着她。
• He was a shy man who shunned all publicity. 他是个怕羞的人，总是避开一切引人注目的活动。 来自《简明英汉词典》

17 skewered   

v.（用串肉扦或类似物）串起，刺穿( skewer的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He skewered his victim through the neck. 他用扦子刺穿了受害人的脖子。 来自辞典例句
• He skewered his foot on a nail. 他的脚踩在钉子上了。 来自互联网

18 capitalism   

n.资本主义

参考例句：

• The essence of his argument is that capitalism cannot succeed.他的论点的核心是资本主义不能成功。
• Capitalism began to develop in Russia in the 19th century.十九世纪资本主义在俄国开始发展。

19 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

20 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

21 brutality   

n.野蛮的行为，残忍，野蛮

参考例句：

• The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
• a general who was infamous for his brutality 因残忍而恶名昭彰的将军