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Keith Haring
Tate Liverpool
★★★★★
KEITH Haring (1958–1990) was an American artist and political activist. In this wonderful retrospective we really get to see the way in which he wanted to make art as accessible as possible to the majority of people.
He once said: “There is an audience that is being ignored. They are open to art when it is open to them.”
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