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Photos by Tseng Kwong Chi with Keith Haring at Paul Kasmin Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs taken by the American artist Tseng Kwong Chi in 1983 in collaboration with the choreographer Bill T. Jones and the artist Keith Haring. Shown in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of of Tseng and Haring’s deaths, these striking large-format photographs celebrate the spirit of interconnected creativity that pulsed throughout the East Village in the 1980’s and will be on display at 511 W. 27th Street from February 11 to March 13, 2010. “Keith was showing at the Robert Fraser Gallery in London and for this painting session of ours, he rents a special studio,” Jones recalls in a passage from Haring’s published biography. “And the music is going and the hip hangers-on are there hanging on. It took so long! Over four