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Keith Haring Prepares for the Basquiat Treatment

It’s rare to see a show of the subway artist’s best works, not least because good collectors tend to hold on to them. But Gladstone has one now, and two more are coming next year—potentially tempting the next generation of Basquiat collectors, too.

Keith Haring
It’s rare to see a really great show of Haring’s work—the last I can think of at a museum was the Broad’s Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody from two years ago. One reason is that the best collectors hold on to his works, and the Keith Haring Foundation, to which the artist left his estate, still has some of the greatest pieces. Photo: Jack Mitchell/Getty Images
Marion Maneker
September 30, 2025

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Keith Haring’s subway drawings were never meant to be preserved or sold. But in the early 1980s, the collector Larry Warsh began an obsessive and diligent pursuit to track them down. It paid off in a great immersive show at Sotheby’s last November that earned $9.2 million for the group.