Apocalypse 8

Keith Haring

1988

Color screenprint

Minneapolis Institute of Art

This screenprint features a chaotic composition of abstract figures and symbols in black, yellow, blue, and orange against a white background. A central image of a child is surrounded by various graphic elements including a dog-like creature, a horned figure, and the number 666. This screenprint features a chaotic composition of abstract figures and symbols in black, yellow, blue, and orange against a white background. A central image of a child is surrounded by various graphic elements including a dog-like creature, a horned figure, and the number 666. 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 a