Kenny Scharf Documentary Spotlights an ’80s Downtown New York Cult Figure in Search of Fun
He was close with Basquiat and Haring, though he is nowhere near as famous as either of them.
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ARTnews in Brief: Leelee Chan Wins Art Basel’s BMW Art Journey Award—and More from June 19, 2020
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In the early 1980s, Kenny Scharf, barely out of art school, emerged as a central protagonist of the short-lived, much mythologized East Village scene—a milieu that was celebrated as a…
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Kenny Scharf Delivers Cosmic Cavern Museum This Fall
Last May, Kenny Scharf, the self-proclaimed “Pop Surrealist,” was a few days away from moving out of the living and work space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, that he calls his Cosmic Cavern. Scharf had…
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‘Lick Boy Fat Art’: Keith Haring’s Language Art Decoded
A new exhibition at NYU shows how the artist used glyphs, anagrams, and phonics to express taboo subjects
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What I Like About You: Artists to Follow on Instagram
How Laurie Simmons, Ryan McGinness, Kenny Scharf, and others are using the photo-sharing network to disseminate their work—and their fixations
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Kenny Scharf's loopy, Pop-saturated paintings are back—in galleries and on the street.
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