00:00We're here at Keith Haring's Subway Dreams Voice of the Street exhibition at
00:04the MoCo Museum which is here for three months exclusively in London. The
00:08exhibition takes you back to 1980's New York where you're transported into the
00:12subway where Haring created his iconic chalk drawings on the side of unused
00:16and used advertising billboards. The works were often erased within hours and all
00:21were conducted uncommissioned. We have one collector who was really passionate
00:26about the Keith Haring Subway drawings for many years and he had a passion for it
00:34because it was such special art and different like like the other pieces
00:39Keith Haring made. Haring himself said that art is for everybody and he aimed to
00:43reach as many people as possible. Commuters from all walks of life as they
00:47were traveling on the subway. Because all the art pieces were drawn in the subway
00:52in New York in the 1980's by Keith Haring. So most of the artworks were thrown
00:58away or destroyed or he was busted by the police because it was not allowed and
01:04some of the people in the subway in New York came by it every day so they went
01:09like in the museum in the subway when they came home and when they went to work
01:16and some of them just took one piece out and they kept it for many years like 40
01:21years ago now and now they're here so it's really special. And also the pieces
01:27which you see the bench the doors here from the subway and we have a telephone
01:33booth it's all original from the 1980's of the subway in New York. He later went on
01:39to create his colorful works of art of which perhaps you might recognize the most
01:43though still often featuring the same iconic dancing figures. Haring was a
01:47pioneering queer voice in the LGBTQ plus movement with his art often featuring
01:53gender-neutral characters celebrating community and love in a time of
01:56prejudice. His work also challenged the stigma around the AIDS crisis which he
02:01sadly died from in 1990. If Keith was still around today what sort of art do you
02:06think he'd be making? I think still the same art yeah yeah because he has his
02:11signature and you have the the sitting baby which is really popular and smiling
02:18faces and and the love pieces so he will still do that connection love and be
02:26happy with each other
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