Jean-Michel Basquiat
A superbly produced retrospective on the luminous career of Jean-Michel BasquiatThe first African-American artist to attain art superstardom, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once accidentally leaving a portfolio of about 2,000 drawings on a subway car) in the space of just eight years. Through his street roots in graffiti, Basquiat helped to establish new possibilities for figurative and expressionistic painting,...
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Text by Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Louis Prat, Susanne Reichling.
