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Highlights from Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

As AIDS raged through gay communities across the United States beginning in the 1980s, Haring’s 1989 devastating canvas, entitled Unfinished Painting, mourns the loss of so many. Haring himself died from AIDS on February 16, 1990, a year that saw the incredible toll—18,447 deaths—of the disease.

Unfinished Painting by Keith Haring. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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