Tate Modern Brings Back Haring’s Pop Shop

Published: September 29, 2009

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LONDON— The Pop Shop, a store in New York’s SoHo neighborhood that sold Keith Haring designs in the form of branded T-shirts, toys, magnets, and other memorabilia, closed in 2005 due to rising costs, but now it’s been brought back, painstakingly re-created as an exhibit at the Tate Modern.

The show, "Pop Life: Art in a Material World," is expected to draw large crowds, and for the truly devoted, there will be an opportunity to buy mass-produced Haring merchandise that is currently available only online. The replication of the store hews as close as possible to the original: Haring had covered the Pop Shop’s walls, ceiling, and floor with a monochrome graffiti scrawl, and the reconstructed store will contain a reproduction of that mural. There will even be Keith Haring mix tapes playing in the background. Says assistant curator Nicholas Cullinan, "We wanted it to be a living, breathing entity.” The show opens Oct. 1.

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