Keith Haring Retrospective with 140 Works Opens at Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi, October 2026

Key facts

• The Keith Haring retrospective runs from October 6, 2026, to April 11, 2027, at the Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi, Piazza di S. Pantaleo 10, Rome.
• It features more than 140 works, primarily from the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, the world's most important collection dedicated to the artist.
• Curators are Kaoru Yanase, Ilaria Miarelli Mariani, and Claudio Zambianchi.
• The exhibition traces Haring's career from early New York subway chalk drawings to late works, including paintings, posters, prints, sculptures, and archival materials.
• It highlights Haring's ties to Italy through works linked to Naples, Milan, Pisa, and Rome, including posters for Lucio Amelio and Galleria Salvatore Ala, the Poster for Pisa for the Tuttomondo mural, and the 1984 Motorcycle painted in Rome.
• A group of photographs by Stefano Fontebasso De Martino documents Haring's 1984 interventions at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni during Arte di frontiera. New York Graffiti and on the Ponte Pietro Nenni along metro Line A.
• The show includes the iconic 1984 spray-painted panels along Manhattan's FDR Drive and the Yamaha motorcycle Haring painted in Rome in 1984.
• A program of school and family activities and adult guided tours accompanies the exhibition; Rome culture assessor Massimiliano Smeriglio said the show honors the concept of 'public artwork' and Haring's message that art and culture are for everyone.