1980s Keith Haring Pop Shop Tokyo 1988 (announcements)

1988

Keith Haring Pop Shop: Rare vintage original Keith Haring 1980s Pop Shop bag designed by Haring for use at his famed New York store. A classic Keith Haring Pop Shop collectible that ...

Keith Haring Pop Shop Tokyo book 1992: Rare vintage Keith haring monograph which well documents the history of Keith Haring's Tokyo Pop Shop; features many photographs by Haring's longtime friend and collaborator Tseng Kwong Chi. 
 Softcover; 68 pages; 1st edition 1st printing, 1992. 9.75 x 9.5 inches. Minor surface & age related wear to front & back cover; in otherwise good overall vintage condition. Text in German & English. Published by Galerie Kunst Parterre / George Mulder Fine Arts. Unsigned from an edition of 1500. Rare. Keith Haring Pop Shop: In 1986, Keith Haring opened the Pop Shop at 292 Lafayette Street, New York. The following year, Haring collaborated with Japanese film producer Kaz Kuzui, and his American wife, film director Fran Rubel Kuzui on a Tokyo venue, in the Aoyama neighborhood. The shop was made out of two shipping containers welded together to form one large room. While the shop was conceived very much in the image of its New York counterpart, many of the products were created by Haring to mirror Japan’s cultural traditions. Haring did extensive design work in Tokyo; fans and kimonos were manufactured in Kyoto, and rice bowl templates were painted and then produced in Nagoya. With speed and virtuosity, Haring began painting the interior of the shop on January 27, 1988 and finished the next day. The paint was still tacky on January 29 when he oversaw the installation of the displays in time for a press preview that evening. On Saturday, January 30, Pop Shop Tokyo opened to the public. However, sales were disappointing, and Haring noted “there are just too many Haring fakes available all over Tokyo and, this time, they’re really well done.” The shop closed in the summer of 1988. (source: New York Historical Society. Related Categories Keith Haring pop shop. Keith haring Japan. Keith Haring catalog...

Created by the artist during his lifetime, though printed just shortly after his death, Keith Haring’s, Pop Shop VI (B) was published in 1989 as an original screenprint in color on w...

Hand signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, Image size 10.5 x 13.375 inches.. Sheet size 12 x 15 inches. Frame size appro...