Q 01/05

Keith Haring made his name drawing on empty black ad panels in the New York subway with what?

A) Spray paint

B) White chalk

C) Black marker

D) House paint

Answer · why

B) White chalk

White chalk on the matte paper covering unused panels gave him a free public canvas, and Keith Haring sometimes made as many as forty drawings in a da...

Q 02/05

Keith Haring was arrested in 1986 after painting which mural on a Harlem handball court?

A) Silence = Death

B) Ignorance = Fear

C) Crack Is Wack

D) Rebel with Many Causes

Answer · why

C) Crack Is Wack

Crack Is Wack went up without permission, but the press and locals backed it and Keith Haring paid only a $100 fine. The Parks Department later invite...

Q 03/05

In 1986 Keith Haring painted a chain of red and black figures on yellow along which structure?

A) The Berlin Wall

B) The Hoover Dam

C) The Brooklyn Bridge

D) The Great Wall of China

Answer · why

A) The Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall mural borrowed the colours of the German flag as a wish for unity between East and West. The barrier itself fell three years later.

Q 04/05

Keith Haring fused Mickey Mouse with which Pop artist, his friend and mentor, in 1980s prints?

A) Roy Lichtenstein

B) Claes Oldenburg

C) Robert Rauschenberg

D) Andy Warhol

Answer · why

D) Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol became a mouse-eared character in the prints, and in one of them Keith Haring placed him on a dollar bill. Both men signed every sheet.

Q 05/05

Which pop star made the last US concert of her 1990 world tour a benefit in memory of Keith Haring?

A) Cyndi Lauper

B) Madonna

C) Janet Jackson

D) Paula Abdul

Answer · why

B) Madonna

Madonna gave more than $300,000 from the show to AIDS research. She and Keith Haring had been friends since the early 1980s.