A former Christie’s president examines the meteoric rise of the “radiant child”, and his legacy following his untimely death ...
The Films Stars Kelvin Harrison, Jr. As Basquiat, And Is The First Basquiat Film Ever to be Envisioned by a Black Filmmaker A street art depicting artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is pictured on July 10, ...
Acclaimed actor Roger Guenveur Smith will be performing a play in honor of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Theater at ...
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced ...
Since his tragic death from an overdose at just 27 years old in 1988, street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has become an art-market darling and near-legendary figure, the subject of seemingly countless ...
Ahead of its public reopening on November 15, the Studio Museum in Harlem showed off its new building to the press on ...
The Studio Museum in Harlem is preparing to reopen its doors on Nov. 15, revealing not only a striking new building but also ...
A stretch of Great Jones Street in downtown Manhattan has been officially named Jean-Michel Basquiat Way. The street includes the second-floor warehouse that Basquiat rented from Andy Warhol, where ...
The Perennial Shadow of art in Basquiat's brief life / Achille Bonito Oliva -- Art: from subways to SoHo, Jean-Michel Basquiat / Henry Geldzahler -- Jean-Michel Basquiat: speaking in tongues / Richard ...
What the Museum Says: “The exhibition includes the entire cache of works made by Jean-Michel Basquiat during the year he lived with his friend Alexis Adler in a small apartment in the East Village.
Jean-Michel Basquiat reigned as the quintessential 1980s art star. Topped with a tangle of dreadlocks and draped in Commes de Garçon finery, he attracted parasitic hangers-on, beguiled groupies and ...
The wig gives it away, otherwise we’d be hard-pressed to immediately – or even slowly – recognize Paul Bettany’s fast-talking, extroverted and inquisitive artist character in Anthony McCarten’s The ...