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Keith Haring in 3-D: When the Canvas Has Four Wheels

keith haring land rover photo by gail worley
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There are certain artists whose visual language is so instantly recognizable that you can spot their work from across the room —or, in this case, across a gallery floor attached to a Land Rover.

I recently stopped by Keith Haring in 3-D at Free Parking, a pop-up exhibition in the West Village dedicated to a lesser-discussed but wildly fun part of Keith Haring’s career: the objects he transformed beyond the canvas. While Haring is most famous for his subway drawings, radiant babies, barking dogs, and dancing figures that helped define downtown New York in the 1980s, this show focused on his three-dimensional works — including two of his rare painted art cars.
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Eye On Design: Guido Faleschini’s Tucroma Dining Chairs for i4 Mariani

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I’m always drawn to chairs that feel like they’re doing more than just sitting there — and the Tucroma dining chairs by Guido Faleschini are exactly that kind of piece. This set of six installed around a rectangular glass dining table is one of those perfect 1970’s design moments where everything clicks: material, form, color, and space all working together without trying too hard.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Revolutionary Sister By Dindga McCannon

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An expression of artist Dindga McCannon’s love for Black American women, Revolutionary Sister (1971) was a response to the absence of depictions of women fighting for Black empowerment in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Meret Oppenheim, Octopus’s Garden

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In the early 1970s, Meret Oppenheim (19131985) began enthusiastically making collages. Octopus’s Garden (1971) is among the largest and most spectacular of those. This work depicts a fantastical underwater landscape, complete with calcified coral forms, trails of bubbles, and cut-out reproductions of peacock feathers.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Revolutionary (Angela Davis)

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Wadsworth Jarrell’s Revolutionary (Angela Davis) (1971) is one of the most recognized paintings associated with the Black Arts Movement, a cultural manifestation of the Black Power Movement. Artists of this movement sought to create uplifting images that called upon Black people to harness their collective power.

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