The NYC Subways in the 80s became an underground culture in itself. Buskers lined the tunnels, hip hop music bounced off the walls as though it was a cathedral playing hymns and temporary artworks from Keith Haring were scribbled on the walls.

In a rare clip we can now explore the underground subculture that filled Keith Haring’s youthful life — scribbling artworks with chalk through the underground tunnel system of NYC.

Keith Haring created art to express social and political issues that were prominent in 1980’s New York street culture — expressing concepts of birth, death, sexuality and war. Haring’s art became a visual language of the 20th century, communicating a message rather then two dimensional artwork where his style now is recognised worldwide. 

‘It’s a fast-paced art for a fast-paced world’  Keith explains as business people pace through the subways passing his artwork that are now worth over 5 million dollars each.

A fun black-and-white piece of art thrown up over a subway ad, serving a reminder to the bygone, grittier New York.