The Universe of Keith Haring

Christina Clausen's documentary, which relies on interviews with Haring's family and friends for a sense of narrative, tells it fairly well.....The use of Eighties footage is excellent and reveals.... ... Full Review

Early video shows Haring painting a room-sized piece on his floor in time to the beat of some of his favorite music.....while Andy Warhol liked making meaningless art from a meaningful tradition, Haring made art that may have looked meaningless, but was actually quite meaningful..... ... Full Review

The inspiring film reveals how Keith began associating with the fellow pop icons:....enduring images of the late 20th century.....Haring's passion and commitment in creating ever-lasting art, as well as his energetic persona is depicted within "The Universe of Keith Haring.....Interviews with his family and closest friends provide an intimate portrait of the world-renowned artist..... ... Full Review

Haring's passion and commitment in creating ever-lasting art, as well as his energetic persona is depicted within "The Universe of Keith Haring. Combining music of the era, photo stills, and audio excerpts from interviews conducted with Haring himself, "The Universe of Keith Haring" is an exceptional program and a must-own for pop-culture fans and artists everywhere. ... Full Review

The film is awash in the kind of angularly asymmetric hothouse creativity then pulsating through downtown Manhattan's loft-and-gallery culture.....brazen about his homosexuality and opinions as Warhol, with his mystique of smartly attired shadowy ambivalence, remained reticent.....carefully drawing in with a thick black marker the strong lines of dancing figures in cartoonish landscapes....Although he doesn't actually pop in until later in the film, Andy Warhol is a permanent, lurking presence in Christina ... Full Review

The Universe of Keith Haring is a vertiginously intimate account of the pop artist's life, his fears growing up, and finally his courage when he heard that he had Aids. ... Full Article

The bane of documentaries on creative people is that they're often little more than a fan's note, of interest only to those who already know and love the work in question. ... Full Article

AIDS in 1990 robbing the world of his delightful talent and energetic personality. The film includes talking head remembrances from his family, friends, and artistic contemporaries including Yoko Ono, Kenny Scharf, Bill T. ... Full Article

By David Noh For movie details, please click here . The Universe of Keith Haring celebrates a man whose work was probably the most easily accessible in the history of art. ... Full Article

Universe of Keith Haring , a documentary devoted to the life of the gangly, bespectacled painter/filmmaker who dominated the New York art scene during the 1980s, is content to slide on hagiography and shortchange cultural critique. ... Full Article

Equally a portrait of the artist and a portrait of a decade, this celebratory documentary makes the short, accelerated life of Keith Haring (1958-1990) inseparable from that short, accelerated period we know as '80s New York. ... Full Article