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DESIGN N THINGS.
September/October.
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and to expand the audience for his work through exhibi-
tions, publications and the licensing of his images. He used
his imagery during the last years of his life to speak about his
illness and to generate activism and awareness about AIDS.
In 1989, he was invited by the Lesbian and Gay Community
Services Center to join a show of site-specific artwork for the
building at 208 West 13th Street. He chose the second-floor
men’s room for his mural Once Upon a Time. In June, on
the rear wall of the convent of the Church of Sant’Antonio
(in Italian: Chiesa di Sant’Antonio abate) in Pisa (Italy), he
painted the last public work of his life, the mural “Tutto-
mondo” (translation: “All world”).
Keith Haring with boyfriend, Juan Dubose.
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