Haring Artwork Returned

A celebrity photo tribute to famed artist KEITH HARING in Tokyo, Japan is set to go ahead as planned following the return of a set of prints that had mysteriously vanished from a New York party.

Twenty four murals and photographs designed by Sex and the City stylist Patricia Field and shot by fashion photographer Dah Len were put on display for the Keith Haring by House of Field exhibit at Manhattan’s Hudson Hotel last week (11Feb10).

The images, which featured friends of the late artist, including DJ and guitarist Mark Ronson and 1970s supermodel Pat Cleveland, mysteriously went missing - throwing another planned exhibit in Tokyo into jeopardy.

Event producer Sandra Shafer said, “We are totally shocked and devastated they have gone, as they were supposed to go on to a Keith Haring exhibition in Tokyo. We have asked the hotel to explain to us how they could have gone missing. The problem is, there are no security cameras. We are hoping whoever took them will have a change of heart and give them back.”

And organisers have been given renewed hope after recovering three of the prints that had gone missing.

Shafer tells the New York Post, “A girl called today (17Feb10) and will be returning three prints. She did not realise she could not take them. Keith Haring always wanted the public to ‘own’ his artwork, and I guess now they really do own them.”

Haring, who was known for his graffiti-inspired works, died of an AIDS-related illness on 16 February, 1990.