At some point later that year, Jean-Michel Basquiat used marker and acrylics to dash off a sketch of two fiendish cops beating an armless, legless figure, rendered in black silhouette.

Mr. Basquiat’s piece shows two red-faced police in blue uniform, one baring pointy teeth, with batons raised over an all-black silhouette.

Basquiat was never not political, ... Death of Michael Stewart,” painted later in 1983, depicts two snaggle-fanged cops, pink as Porky Pig, bopping a black silhouette with their billy clubs; ...

Friends of Jean-Michel Basquiat are upset that the late artist's sisters have commercialized his legacy on products including a welcome mat. Ruggable If you want to buy a painting by Jean-Michel ...

At the Great Jones Street studio Basquiat rented from Warhol, and in which he died on August 12, 1988, a painted silhouette and SAMO-style graffiti mark this as a place of creativity and tragedy.

Basquiat occupied the downtown loft, owned at the time by Andy Warhol, for five years, during which time he created some of his best-known works. It was there, too, in 1988, that the 27-year-old ...

In the early '90s, Giorgio Armani knocked the stuffing out of the '80s power suit—and created an eternally cool uniform for right now.

'Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure,' produced by the late artist's sisters, features more than 200 paintings, drawings and ephemera from the family’s estate, and immersive re-creations of ...

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 ...