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Art Szn is in full effect in New York City! All the art fairs opened this week, Art openings at nearly every gallery in Chelsea and Tribeca. Artist friends from all over the country are coming and going to events. The sun is shining, the weather is sweet. Birds are singing in the trees and we are painting in the studio. Staying focused between all the seasons. There has been a strong wave of Keith Haring exhibitions and inspiration this season. A few weeks ago we visited the Brandt foundation to see a 4 storied show of his “formative years.” A must see show if you like Keith’s work. I met up with my friend @FrankApeWorld, who is also very inspired by Keith Haring, at his biggest gallery show to date. I’ve been collecting his art since 2012 when we first met at The Living Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Since then every year I acquire a new work, or 10! I’ve somehow amassed over 100 works. He’s always been an artist I’ve admired his street art murals and wheat-paste throughout all the mediums he explores with his ape motif on canvas, paper, and other materials he finds. You’ll find him in my Smoke and Mirrors and Moments projects with his character. He was one of the first artists I helped on-board in 2021 as I still believe all art, past present, and future, can exist on the blockchain. Some may agree or disagree and there is an ethics of preservation. But I like to look at this technology as a place to archive art. The time of mint and the author of the work. Where it’s made and where it goes. The transfers and transactions are the journey. The life line of the digitalized work. In the same neighborhood, at 60 White st is a big Keith Haring exhibition that conveys work from his disco era and day glow environments he crafted. Carlo McCormick, a legendary New Yorker and street art expert, curated the exhibition. I met Carlo right out of College when I was working in public art and he curated a show with us. Carlo made an appearance in Smoke and Mirrors as not only the King of Swords, but the foreword writer to the book itself. The first time I read his writings was in a Foreword for Alex Grey that he did for Sacred Mirrors. From that moment I manifested a photo shoot with both Alex and Carlo for that project! The first show by Carlo I experienced was a massive retrospective for Rammelzee back in 2018. If you want to learn about Keith, Kaws, or street art turned fine. He’s your guy! Now let’s get digital. @collectionist & his lovely wife @jeannievu hosted a Keith Haring exhibition of his Amiga works when he drew his dancing characters into the computer program. He went on to inspire Warhol and both of their collection of works found its way to Christie’s a few years ago. Jehan fortunately acquired the entire set by Keith, where Warhols was spread out. Jehan and I talked about this digital work and what it meant in his oeuvre. Keith was known for his subway drawings that gained his notoriety in the 80s. That grew into a successful career of charity work and collector commissions, from private to parties. He drew and painted until the end. It’s fascinating to think at the end of his life he made these digital drawings on the computer. Symbolically, his death marked the beginning of digital art in the mainstream and how we behave now. He was able to play instrumentally with the tools that we now use intrinsically to our crafts and connections. His digital works represent a life of mixed mediums and characters. Just like Frank ape makes. The stories that Carlo tells. The art that Jehan collects.

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