Apocalypse 3

Keith Haring

1988

Color screenprint

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A chaotic composition features a collage of a woman feeding a baby, surrounded by Haring's signature figures and abstract shapes. An airplane, falling figures, and mechanical elements add to the disarray. A chaotic composition features a collage of a woman feeding a baby, surrounded by Haring's signature figures and abstract shapes. An airplane, falling figures, and mechanical elements add to the disarray. Multidisciplinary artist and activist Keith Haring created <i>Apocalypse</i> in collaboration with the writer William S. Burroughs to draw public attention to the ravages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Burroughs’s Surrealist prose was a frequent source of inspiration for Haring and had a definitive impact on this series, which was published two years before the artist’s own death from HIV/AIDS. In each of these ten prints, Haring invoke