After Keith Haring

Keith Haring Pop Shop announcements designed by Haring to advertise the opening of his Tokyo Pop Shop store.

• Sold as a set of 2.
• After Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990).
• Offset printed announcement.
• Printed signature.
• Each work is presented unframed.

In 1986, Keith Haring opened the Pop Shop at 292 Lafayette Street, New York. The following year, Haring collaborated with Japanese film producer Kaz Kuzui, and his American wife, film director Fran Rubel Kuzui on a Tokyo venue, in the Aoyama neighborhood.

The shop was made out of two shipping containers welded together to form one large room. While the shop was conceived very much in the image of its New York counterpart, many of the products were created by Haring to mirror Japan’s cultural traditions. Haring did extensive design work in Tokyo.

With speed and virtuosity, Haring began painting the interior of the shop on January 27, 1988 and finished the next day. The paint was still tacky on January 29 when he oversaw the installation of the displays in time for a press preview that evening. On Saturday, January 30, Pop Shop Tokyo opened to the public, but was short lived closing in the summer of 1988.