Keith Haring Foundation Gives $1 Million to New Museum

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Haring started the nonprofit six months before his death in 1990 to support AIDS-related causes and art education. The recent donation will underwrite the New Museum's School and Youth Programs Fund, which helps high school students develop critical thinking skills through art. 

The New Museum, which has a 1982 Haring lithograph in its permanent collection, raised its profile last year when it moved into a new home on the Lower East Side, where many of Haring's signature art works were created. 

"The gift is a way of ensuring that Keith's name is connected in a permanent way to a position at the museum," says Julia Grue, executive director of the Foundation. "It's a way of keeping his name alive for a new generation."