Crack Is Wack — artwork #16297 by Keith Haring · New York, United States

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Crack Is Wack — Street art by Keith Haring in New York

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Keith Haring

Keith Haring (1958-1990) was an American artist born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He came to notice in the early 1980s drawing in white chalk on the blank advertising panels of the New York subway, hundreds of times over, until his clear line and faceless figures became instantly recognisable. His work rests on a fertile contradiction: a childlike graphic vocabulary put to work on subjects that are …

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Added 29/08/2026

Against a vivid orange ground, convulsive figures tangle around the slogan "CRACK IS WACK". Keith Haring painted it without permission in 1986 on the wall of a handball court alongside Harlem River Drive, after his assistant became addicted to crack. New York City, hostile at first, ended up protecting it and naming the playground after it.

The artwork Crack Is Wack is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of New York in United States, more precisely here: Crack Is Wack Playground, Harlem River Drive, New York, NY.

This graffiti is also tagged as: engagement, fresque, keith-haring.

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The photo was published on 29-08-2026 by an unknown hunter.

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