Titled “Untitled (1978),” the work is described to be the earliest known example of Basquiat’s iconic “Head” motif which he created at 18 years old. Basquiat’s “Head” figuration is considered to be a ...

American Neo-Expressionist Jean-Michel Basquiat never studied art professionally but managed to become one of the most famous ...

The museum’s latest programming is once again a tour de force, in part because it consists of two comprehensive retrospectives: one dedicated to Egon Schiele, the another to Jean-Michel Basquiat ...

Visitors to “Jean-Michel Basquiat ... of how Basquiat painted, and why. A wine glass he drank from rested on a table, and jazz records he was listening to sat on a record player.

Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, born and raised in Brooklyn, was integral to Manhattan’s experimental, 1980s-era art scene. But the late artist had an important history in Los Angeles. He spent ...

By Hadley Meares Contributor Jean-Michel Basquiat burst onto the New York art scene in the early 1980s and has been claimed as an NYC legend ever since. “The rap on Jean-Michel was he’s a ...