{"id":625,"date":"2005-07-18T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2005-07-18T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-18T09:14:00","slug":"pop-shop-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPop Shop\u201d closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Keith Haring Foundation, The \u201cPop Shop\u201d, Keith Haring\u2019s commercial venture for the last 20 years will be closed this September. Online sales will stop in July (this has already happened). I\u2019ve always liked Haring and have always loved the \u201cPop Shop\u201d concept \u2013 This is a shame, but evidently it has been losing money since it opened. I believe that the foundation feels the need to be working on keeping KH\u2019s art and social concerns moving forward and if its purely a financial decision maybe someone could step forward and help underwrite costs or even move it somewhere, that said \u2013 to see it move to Williamsburg would break my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Keith Haring Foundation, The \u201cPop Shop\u201d, Keith Haring\u2019s commercial venture for the last 20 years will be closed this September. Online sales will stop in July (this has already happened). I\u2019ve always liked Haring and have always loved the \u201cPop Shop\u201d concept \u2013 This is a shame, but evidently it has been losing money since it opened. I believe that the foundation feels the need to be working on keeping KH\u2019s art and social concerns moving forward and if its purely a financial decision maybe someone could step forward and help underwrite costs or even move it&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=625\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cPop Shop\u201d closing<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}