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In 1986 Haring opened his Pop Shop in New York to sell works printed on commercial objects like buttons and t-shirts. Two years later, he opened an international version in Tokyo, a space made out of two shipping containers welded together to form one large room. By the summer of 1988, the Tokyo shop closed.Haring was quoted saying, “there are just too many Haring fakes available all over Tokyo and, this time, they’re really well done.” After 20 years of business, Hering also closed the New York Pop Shop when rent became too high. New York Magazine quotes Amy Cappellazzo, then the co-head of contemporary art at Christie's, 'This is such an end of an era,' she said of the shop's folding, 'Once you can’t walk on Lafayette and see the shop, it’s the end of personal nostalgia, and the beginning of history.'

Now you can see a rotating display of the objects sold in his Tokyo Pop Shop at theNew York Historical Society. The ceiling of the Haring's New York Pop Shop hangs over the Society's admissions entrance, and the exhibit will display a number of objects on loan from the Keith Haring Foundation.

-Huffington Post