The Brant Foundation is about to revive the East Village as a downtown arts mecca. This spring, the institution will debut "Keith Haring," a major new exhibition opening on March 11, 2026, that zeroes in on the artist’s meteoric early years, when a young Haring was chalking subway walls, working out a new graphic language and helping rewrite the rules of what art could look like. The show will be held at the Foundation’s East 6th Street space, just blocks from where Haring’s rise began.

Keith Haring's iconic 'FDR Drive Mural' will be on display for a limited time on Elizabeth Street

Rather than packing the gallery with Haring's better-known (and widely reproduced) work, the exhibition focuses on the artist's output between 1980 and 1983, a period that saw him morph from a downtown presen

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