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Keith Haring, the art world’s celebrated graffitist, drew the distinctive red-and-gold album cover, featuring a haloed figure cradling a child.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2022

His short career began as a graffitist in New York’s subway system and developed through the ’80s with dozens of museum exhibitions, public art commissions and advertising deals.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2020

One graffitist was even paid to paint a mural on the wall of Art Patron Ben Bernstein's town house.

From Time Magazine Archive