Kenny Scharf When Worlds Collide (2021)

When Kenny Scharf arrived in NYC in the early 1980s he quickly met and befriended Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat There amongst the fervent creative bustle of a depressed downtown scene the trio would soon change the way we think about art the world and ourselves But unlike Haring and Basquiat who both died tragically young Kenny lived through cataclysmic shifts in the East Village as well as the ravages of AIDS and economic depression When Worlds Collide is about the art of fun about living life out loud despite setbacks and about Kenny Scharfs particular doit yourself hightone technicolor artistic vision