You couldn’t escape the symbolism and the symmetry Thursday evening in New York at the 25th anniversary screening of Basquiat, the impressionistic 1996 film biography of the late Brooklyn-born ...

While filming Basquiat, the 1996 film from director Julian Schnabel, Jeffrey Wright was tasked with slipping into the world of the artist Jean Michel Basquiat. If the nature of the role wasn’t ...

Few artists’ public images have been as important to their early careers as Jean-Michel Basquiat’s. But these days, the image most people have of the 1980s New York painter comes mainly from ...

In his statement, Onah also shared that he first discovered Basquiat when he was 14 years old, but was also inspired by Julian Schnabel’s 1996 film “Basquiat,” starring Jeffrey Wright as the ...

Commentators include the artist’s friend Julian Schnabel, who directed the 1996 biographical film “Basquiat” (starring Jeffrey Wright as Basquiat, and David Bowie as Warhol), ...

Schnabel, with “Basquiat,” has proved he can make just as bad a movie as fellow painter Robert Longo, director of the poorly received Keanu Reeves vehicle “Johnny Mnemonic.” ...

The storied rise and fall of Jean-Michel Basquiat is headed for a new rendering on the silver screen, according to Variety. Under the title Samo Lives (citing the mantle that Basquiat used as a ...

This initially premiered at the 1996 Venice Film Festival this fall. Janus Films will debut the B&W 4K re-release of Basquiat in select US theaters starting September 13th, 2024 this month. Want ...

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 ...

This year for Tribeca, Schanbel remastered his 1996 biographical picture of Jean-Michael Basquiat starring Jeffrey Wright alongside David Bowie as Andy Warhol, re-colorizing the film in black and ...

As a primer on Basquiat, "Boom for Real" has holes; the film assumes a working knowledge of Basquiat and his importance on behalf of the viewer. (The fictionalized "Basquiat," from 1996 with ...