BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:148118@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260730T163259Z DTSTART:20260827T183000Z DTEND:20260827T200000Z SUMMARY:Lavender Book Club: Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch DESCRIPTION:This month’\\;s Lavender Book Club pick is Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch.\\nThursday\\, August 27\\n6 :30-8:00pm\\nPittsburgh Equality Center at FMUC\\n5401 Centre Avenue\\, P ittsburgh\\, PA 15232\\nRead Reviews\\nAmazon\\nGet the Book\\nLibrary | Amazon | Local Bookstore\\nAbout the Book\\nSOON TO BE A TV SERIES WRITTE N AND DIRECTED BY ANDREW HAIGH\\nNew York Times Book Critics’\\; Fav orite Book of the Year · Washington Post Notable Book of the Year\\n“I t’s all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss\\; the adolesc ent acid trips\\; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers\\; th e long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs\\; the encounters with Madonna\\, Warhol\\, and one game-changer of a subway Johnny Walker Red poster. Brad Gooch takes us deep into Keith Haring’s imagination while somehow mana ging to fix the aura and energy of the 1980s New York art scene to the pa ge. A keen-eyed\\, beautifully written biography\\, atmospheric\\, exuber ant\\, and as radiant as they come.”—Stacy Schiff\\, Pulitzer Prize w inning author of The Revolutionary: Sam Adams\\nA stunning life of the ic onic American artist\\, Keith Haring\\, by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch.\\nIn the 1980s\\, the subways of New York City were covered with a rt. In the stations\\, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads a nd unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These t emporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous w ith a city as diverse as it was at war with itself\\, beset with poverty and crime but alive with art and creative energy. And every single one of these drawings was done by Keith Haring.\\nKeith Haring was one of the m ost emblematic artists of the 1980s\\, a figure described by his contempo raries as “a prophet in his life\\, his person\\, and his work.” Part of an iconic cultural crowd that included Andy Warhol\\, Madonna\\, and Jean-Michel Basquiat\\, Haring broke down the barriers between high art a nd pop culture\\, creating work that was accessible for all and using it as a means to provoke and inspire radical social change. Haring died of A IDS in 1990. To this day\\, his influence on our culture remains incontro vertible\\, and his glamorous\\, tragically short life has a unique aura of mystery and power.\\nIn this definitive Keith Haring biography\\, Brad Gooch\\, noted biographer of Flannery O’Connor and Frank O’Hara\\, w as granted access to Haring’s extensive archive. He has written a biogr aphy that will become the authoritative work on the artist. Based on inte rviews with those who knew Haring best and drawing from the rich archival history\\, Brad Gooch sets out to capture the magic of Keith Haring: a v isionary and timeless icon.\\nThis authoritative art biography reveals th e man behind the icons\\, capturing the relentless creativity and histori cal importance of a once-in-a-generation artist:\\nSubway Drawings: Disco ver the full story behind the thousands of ephemeral chalk drawings that transformed New York City’s subway system into a public gallery for eve ryone.\\nArt for Everybody: Explore Haring’s democratic belief in break ing down the barriers between high art and popular culture\\, from his Po p Shop to his public murals.\\nAn American Artist: Witness Haring’s jou rney from a childhood in Kutztown\\, Pennsylvania—learning to draw cart oons from his father—to his meteoric rise as a global art phenomenon.\\ nThe AIDS Crisis: Understand how Haring confronted the devastating epidem ic that shaped his later work and tragically cut short his life and caree r at the age of 31.\\nAbout the Author\\nBrad Gooch is a poet\\, novelist \\, and biographer\\, whose most recent book is Radiant: The Life and Lin e of Keith Haring. He is the author of twelve previous works\\, including : the memoir Smash Cut\\; Rumi’\\;s Secret\\; the acclaimed biograph y of Frank O’\\;Hara\\, City Poet\\; and Flannery: A Life of Flanner y O’\\;Connor\\, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Ci rcle Award in Biography\\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year\\, a nd a New York Times bestseller. He is the recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships. He lives in New York City .\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/pittsburgh/events/lav ender-book-club-radiant-the-life-and-line-of-keith-haring-by-brad-gooch-2 026-08-27 LOCATION:Pittsburgh URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/pittsburgh/events/lavender-book-club-radiant-the-life-and-line-of-keith-haring-by-brad-gooch-2026-08-27 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR