Apocalypse 7

Keith Haring

1988

Color screenprint

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A chaotic composition features abstract figures, a television screen displaying a disaster, and a collage element of the Mona Lisa. Bold black lines define the forms against a white background, with splashes of orange, blue, and yellow. A chaotic composition features abstract figures, a television screen displaying a disaster, and a collage element of the Mona Lisa. Bold black lines define the forms against a white background, with splashes of orange, blue, and yellow. 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