Mural Arts Program restores Keith Haring mural

Oct 31, 2013 | Mural Arts Program

The Mural Arts Program restored the only remaining collaborative mural created by pop artist Keith Haring. Kathy Matheson and Matt Rourke from the Associated Press came out to cover the story.

The 1987 mural titled "We The Youth" by artist Keith Haring, seen Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia, has gotten a makeover. The city’s Mural Arts Program has worked for months to restore the only collaborative public mural by Haring that is still intact and at its original site. Haring died of AIDS in 1990 at the age of 31. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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