1984 Roxy NYC World Breakdance Championship Swatch Keith Haring T-Shirt

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Swatch 1984 Keith Haring Roxy Breakdance Competition t-shirt.

...  and Steve Greenberg. The Roxy was located at 515 West 18th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. During the late 1970′s thru the mid 1980′s, The Roxy housed many different theme nights. In that time, The Roxy hosted a party for the 1980 U.S.A. Olympic gold medal Ice Hockey winners. By 1981 the format of the club was changing from a roller skating rink/roller disco and catering more to the Hip Hop music that was taking hold of the decade. We are lucky enough to have a Keith Haring Swatch t-shirt that was from a “World Breakdance Championship” [...]

Grace Jones Perfection, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring 1986

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...  video is a BITG favorite taking us back to 1986. Starring Grace Jones, with an appearances by Andy Warhol a year before he died in New York City and pop artist Keith Haring who died of AIDS in 1990. GRACE JONES I’M NOT PERFECT(BUT I’M PERFECT FOR YOU), Courtesy of danney007. Thank you I’m I’m I’m I’m I’m I’m I’m I’m Had we met at a different time we’d be perfect for each other, Now were spending all our time, in this world come together, My heart is aching, from all the love your giving, Were not faking, is this the life [...]

Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Reflecting on Public Artist and the Center Show Installation 1989

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...  anniversay of the Stonewall Riots with a Art showed called “The Center Show” in the spring of 1989. Curator Rick Barnett approaches (former President of the Center) David Nimmons to set up a public art exhibit for the twentigth anniversary of the Stonewall riots. With help from Barbara Sahlman – Sculptor, who was The Center show curator.  Here are a few artist that were part of the public art show and can still be seen at the New York City Gay Community Center. Keith Haring – Men’s restroom. Gary Speziale – The Sons Of Dreams, overhanging in the stairwell. Martin Wong – [...]

The Center: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center NYC

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...  know of which group is meeting there.  Do you have health questions, you’ll get the information you need to make the right choices. The Center also has LGBT youth services and support groups getting them the right information they need now. The center is also a place for social and group events and parties, When I went The atmosphere was very laid back, homey and comfy, the original bathrooms for Men and Women were decorated and painted by gay artist with the men’s room painted by Keith Haring a white background with black paint a true masterpiece, but that [...]

The Life and Times of Nelson Sullivan RIP 1948-1989

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...  ephemeral nature of the crucible in which these events took place: club culture.      It was a renaissance time. Studio 54 was the laboratory inferno where disco was forged. Punk was created at CBGBs by the Ramones and New Wave fashioned by Blondie and Talking Heads at the Mudd Club. Madonna first performed at Danceteria, the club opened by Rudolf, a former German Laundromat manager from Rio. There was an art boom, with east village art galleries mushrooming and showing Graffiti, Neo-Geo, Keith Haring and self-proclaimed con artists like Mark Kostabi.      Over at the Pyramid drag queens and [...]