Guess who...?I was a pre-teen in the early 1990's and when I think of the endless hours I spent at Scottsdale Fashion Square, Keith Haring comes to mind. With all the loitering in Z Gallerie and The Museum Store, I couldn't escape his famous doodles splattered all over neckties, playing cards, posters, magnets and all kinds of trinkets.During that decade of hyper-AIDS awareness, Haring's art became a symbol of the awful disease. The artist was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 and died of HIV related
DOSE's tribute to Haring, at the entrance to Scottsdale's Bentley Gallery.For those who doubt Phoenix graffiti writers have the stuff to invade the realm of fine art, Scottsdale's Bentley Gallery has a one word rebuttal: DOSE. The PHX's sultan of street art is known for his work with the Forever in Control art collective, which is in turn known for rocking walls from downtown Phoenix to the barrios of L.A. and back again. Now DOSE's aerosol stylings can be appreciated right along with the radian
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Shepard Fairey Watch Your Back: Keith Haring Meets DOSE at Scottsdale's Bentley Gallery
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