HARING TRIBUTE JEOPARDISED AFTER ‘THEFT’
A celebrity photo tribute to famed artist KEITH HARING in Tokyo, Japan ha= s been thrown into jeopardy, after a dozen images vanished from a New Yor= k party last week.
Twenty four murals and photographs designed by Sex and the City stylist= Patricia Field and shot by fashion photographer Dah Len were put on disp= lay for the Keith Haring by House of Field exhibit at Manhattan’s Hudson = Hotel on Thursday night (11Feb10).
The images, which featured friends of the late artist, including DJ Mar= k Ronson and 1970s supermodel Pat Cleveland, mysteriously went missing.
And organisers are seeking an explanation from hotel bosses, as another= planned exhibit faces cancellation.
Event producer Sandra Shafer tells the New York Post, "They disappeared= between 2 and 2.30am. Some of the portraits and murals were over six fee= t wide, so we don’t know how somebody managed to get out with them unnoti= ced.
"We are totally shocked and devastated they have gone, as they were sup= posed to go on to a Keith Haring exhibition in Tokyo. We have asked the h= otel to explain to us how they could have gone missing. The problem is, t= here are no security cameras. We are hoping whoever took them will have a= change of heart and give them back." However, Hudson Hotel bosses are playing down the incident.
A hotel spokesperson says, "They are just photo prints, not original Ke= ith Haring works. Organisers were encouraging people to graffiti the wall= and write on the prints - it was a free space and people saw it as that.= I’m not sure if it was really a theft. Guests may have believed the pict= ures were there to be taken." Haring, who was known for his graffiti-inspired works, died of an AIDS-= related illness on 16 February 1990.
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