Conversations at The Lake Merritt

Art History Lecture Series:  Keith Haring

A docent from the de Young Museum in San Francisco will present a lecture on Keith Haring.  The exhibit: The Political Line has its US premiere at the de Young and is the first major Haring show on the West Coast in nearly two decades. The Political Line will feature more than 130 works, including large-scale paintings on tarpaulins and canvases, sculptures, and a number of the artist’s subway drawings. The exhibition creates a narrative that explores Haring’s responses to nuclear proliferation, racial inequality, the excesses of capitalism, environmental degradation, and other issues of deep personal concern.