Original Vintage Pop Shop Pin by Keith Haring is an authentic period artist-merchandise object associated with Haring’s celebrated Pop Shop on Lafayette Street in New York. These small pin-back buttons were produced during the mid-to-late 1980s as part of Haring’s effort to make his imagery available beyond the traditional gallery and fine-art market.
The pin measures approximately 2 cm / 0.8 in in diameter and is constructed as a metal pin-back button with a printed Keith Haring design. Original examples from this period commonly carry small edge markings including Keith Haring TM or Keith Haring followed by a production year such as 1986, 1987, 1988, or 1989.
Keith Haring opened the New York Pop Shop in 1986 as an extension of his artistic practice. The store offered inexpensive objects including buttons, pins, magnets, clothing, watches, toys, and other merchandise decorated with his distinctive figures and symbols. Haring viewed these accessible objects as a way of allowing a much wider audience to own and interact with his art.
Because these pins were everyday objects rather than conventional fine-art editions, surviving original 1980s examples have become desirable pieces of Keith Haring ephemera and Pop Shop history.
A strong vintage collectible for admirers of Keith Haring, Pop Shop memorabilia, 1980s New York art, artist ephemera, Pop Art, vintage pins, and accessible artist-designed objects.
