HARING ARTWORK RETURNED
A celebrity photo tribute to famed artist KEITH HARING in Tokyo, Japan is= set to go ahead as planned following the return of a set of prints that = had mysteriously vanished from a New York party.
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 last week (11Feb10).
The images, which featured friends of the late artist, including DJ and= guitarist Mark Ronson and 1970s supermodel Pat Cleveland, mysteriously w= ent missing - throwing another planned exhibit in Tokyo into jeopardy.
Event producer Sandra Shafer said, "We are totally shocked and devastat= ed they have gone, as they were supposed to go on to a Keith Haring exhib= ition in Tokyo. We have asked the hotel to explain to us how they could h= ave gone missing. The problem is, there are no security cameras. We are h= oping whoever took them will have a change of heart and give them back." And organisers have been given renewed hope after recovering three of t= he prints that had gone missing.
Shafer tells the New York Post, "A girl called today (17Feb10) and will= be returning three prints. She did not realise she could not take them. = Keith Haring always wanted the public to ‘own’ his artwork, and I guess n= ow they really do own them." Haring, who was known for his graffiti-inspired works, died of an AIDS-= related illness on 16 February, 1990.
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