Jeffrey Fashion Cares 2012

To much of the world, Keith Haring is known as the queer pop culture icon whose bold, stylized artwork became a visual timestamp for the electric art and activism scene of 1980s New York. His work also symbolized a darker side of this era — the AIDS crisis, as Haring himself eventually lost his life to HIV-related complications. But to Kermit Oswald, Haring — a world-renowned artist who hobnobbed with contemporaries like Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Jean-Michel Basquiat — was simply his lifelong best friend. Keep Reading →