David Hershkovits

“what it turned out to be at all. There are equal amounts of white, Black, and Puerto Rican graffiti writers, or Chinese or whatever . . . Most of them grew up in the city. If I had grown up in the city, I probably would have been doing it also.” He met a few female writers—Lady”
― Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring

“Kooning Drawing. Like many in Haring’s circle, Cortez, having grown up in the suburbs of Chicago as “Jim Curtis,” invented his tag of a street name. His purposely aslant show at P.S. 1 of more than 600 works by 119 artists, with no frames or labels, was designed to feel more”
― Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring

“Adding a few more hours to their already late nights, the director of the Mudd Club, Steve Mass, at about the same moment, began”
― Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring

“creating at a frenetic pace and living every day like it was our last.” Photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi, the SoHo News piece presented Keith Haring and Dany Johnson as “the Bothroids,” a yuppy suburban couple in L.L.Bean–style fashion, in front of their”
― Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring