You can always stop and have a diet Pepsi with a malfunctioning straw. At the same time, you feel Belle's narrative gifts working their way toward the surface, too. She's got a way to go, but she's worth watching.
T alking about art is never as interesting as the art itself.
The last entry is from 1989, right before he died of AIDS at the age of 31, by which time he had become a world-famous artist. Haring's journals are more introspective, analytic and soulful than his mentor Andy Warhol's superficial, celebrity-studded diaries. Fans of Haring's works, the best-known of which feature colorful primitive figures dancing, will no doubt enjoy reading about his world travels, his public and private shows, and his intimate connections with Warhol, Timothy Leary and William Burroughs. Yet Haring was a visual artist, not a writer, and making paintings is not an inherently exciting topic. Very 'Cobra' brushwork and very drippy.