IF YOU GO: “Basquiat” will play in the auditorium of the Henry Ford Centennial Library, located at 16301 Michigan Avenue in ...

At 19, he lived in a cardboard box. At 20, he was famous and called “The James Dean of the New York art world.” He died of a heroin overdose at 27. “Basquiat” is painter Jul… ...

Tanner bears mentioning because of a line of dialogue in Julian Schanbel’s “Basquiat” (1996), a black-and-white version of which has been released on Blu-Ray by the Criterion Collection. Early on in ...

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 ...

It's one that has fueled both fanciful narrative treatments—Julian Schnabel's 1996 "Basquiat"—and documentaries like "Downtown '81," in which Mr. Basquiat starred as a 19-year-old. Street kid.

In the definitive 1996 biopic, “Basquiat,” actor Jeffrey Wright portrayed Jean-Michel Basquiat opposite David Bowie’s Andy Warhol, acting out the cinematic version of their friendship.

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 ...

Basquiat, 1996. Photo: Miramax/Courtesy Everett Collection. Hollywood doesn’t often get art right. From The Agony and the Ecstasy, about Michelangelo yelling at the pope, to Lust for ...