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Keith opens up a shop to sell his images and try to make money.
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In April 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop, a retail store in Soho selling T-shirts, toys, posters, buttons and magnets
bearing his images. Haring used this shop to show more of his images to the public and become more famous. He painted the
entire the store with his art.The shop was made to allow people greater access to his work. He sold his products at a
very low cost so that more people would buy them. His shop recieved crticism from many people but Haring continued to stay
committed to his work and he recieved strong support from friends, fans, and mentors such as Andy Warhol.
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Throughout his career, Haring devoted a lot of his time to public works. He created more than 50 public
artworks between 1982 and 1989, in dozens of cities around the world. Many of them were created for charities, hospitals,
children’s day care centers and orphanages. The now famous Crack is Wack mural of 1986 has become a landmark
along New York’s FDR Drive. Other projects include; a mural created for the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty
in 1986, on which Haring worked with 900 children; a mural on the exterior of Necker Children’s Hospital in Paris, France
in 1987; and a mural painted on the western side of the Berlin Wall three years before its fall. Haring also held drawing
workshops for children in schools and museums in New York, Amsterdam, London, Tokyo and Bordeaux.
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