The subway drawings were a seminal part of Keith Haring's work, not only due to their infamy at the time but because of their lasting effect on the public.This reprint of Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings, published by No More Rulers in association with Princeton University Press, offers a unique look into Haring's subway drawings. Various essays from art world: Jeffrey Deitch, Carlo McCormick, and Henry Geldzahler, including one written by Haring himself, are interspersed with images of the drawings.

Exhibition of works from Keith Haring's early years in New York City during which time he developed his visual language and formed strategies to create "art for everybody" and the means to get that art to the general public.

Haring’s Manhattan Penis Drawings deliberately eschew eroticism in their repetitive, decorative patterning of male genitalia. The works, made in the late ’70s, interestingly foreshadow the political turn Haring’s work would take in response to the AIDS crisis. The sketches shed light on the concerns that preoccupied Haring during his formative years in the city that would so define his artistic practice—namely, the forging of a direct and immediate visual language and the translation of the personal and political into universal experience. One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958–1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique and memorable effect. With thick black outlines, bright colors, and kinetic figures, his public (and occasionally illegal) interventions, works on canvas, paper and sculptures have become instantly recognizable icons of 20th century visual culture.