Apocalypse 9

Keith Haring

1988

Color screenprint

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A chaotic composition features a crowned skeletal figure in red, a green dragon head, and a figure hanging upside down. Abstract lines and shapes fill the white background. A chaotic composition features a crowned skeletal figure in red, a green dragon head, and a figure hanging upside down. Abstract lines and shapes fill the white background. 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 invokes a range of motifs characterist