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Though 2020 represents no significant milestone marking Jean-Michel Basquiat's death from drug overdose at the age of 27 in 1988, his work features at leading museums, galleries and auctions ...
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 ...
“He would have been pissed off about people wiping dog s–t from their shoes onto his paintings,” said artist Al Diaz of welcome mats featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat’s art.
On June 24, the 25-piece Basquiat collection was seized by the FBI from the Orlando Museum of Art, where they were in an exhibit called Heroes & Monsters: Jean-Michel Basquiat.On June 28, Aaron De ...
Basquiat’s unique style and groundbreaking ideas solidified him as a key figure in the global art canon long after his passing in 1988 at the age of 27 from a heroin overdose.
Basquiat and the Bayou is on view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans through January 25, 2015 as part of Prospect.3: Notes for Now. Visit prospectneworleans.org and ogdenmuseum.org ...
An NFT of Basquiat’s mixed-work drawing Free Comb with Pagoda (1986) is currently up for bid on the OpenSea marketplace. But this non-fungible token comes with a mercenary incentive: ...
Boutique auctioneer Phillips sold a 16-foot-wide, red-and-peach painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat for $85 million in New York on Wednesday. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa put the untitled 1982 ...
“Basquiat: Boom for Real” at the Barbican Art Gallery in London thrusts ’80s provocateur Jean-Michel Basquiat back into the spotlight.