WORKING FOR PEANUTS

Get a load of the Peanuts gallery. You can on Monday around Hudson Square, where largerthan-life murals of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang are being installed for an art show designed to bring communities together. Happiness is a warm pop-up, and it’s up for three months. (above), a Los Angeles-based pop abstract surrealist who broke through as part of the East Village art scene in New York in the 1980s alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, is one of seven contemporary artists in the group show. “The thing I loved so much about Peanuts is the amazing hand of their creator Charles Schulz,” Scharf told the News’ “The gestures were so great. Getting to riff on those lines means a lot to me.”

Scharf’s piece in the Peanuts Global Artist Collective tour depicts Lucy, Linus, Woodstock and other characters before swirling purple cosmic circles, a signature motif since the 1980s. Scharf’s mural is at Watts St., between Hudson and Varick Sts. “Peanuts was the only comic I read as a kid,” he says. “It’s a classic.”