A Japanese billionaire has bought a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting for $110.5 million, the highest ever price paid at auction for a work by an American artist.

Friends of Jean-Michel Basquiat are upset that the late artist's sisters have commercialized his legacy on products including a welcome mat.

Brooklyn-born artist Jean-Michel Basquiat painted “Equals Pi” in 1982. For nearly four decades, the painting remained in private hands — almost entirely hidden from the world — even as ...

Yusaku Maezawa, the billionaire who recently rocketed to the International Space Station, is sending one of his prized paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat to auction this spring for an estimated $70 ...

Basquiat's painted work explored themes of race, class, and power, and often featured text and imagery from popular culture and history.

Jean-Michel Basquiat's sisters talk brother's new exhibit, struggles with fame and fraught friendship with Warhol: 'The world wasn't ready for a Black man with dreadlocks who had his kind of ...

Basquiat’s sisters Lisane Basquiat, left, and Jeanine Heriveaux, sitting in a re-creation of the family’s living room, part of an immersive experience in the exhibition.

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 ...

H&M teams with New York-based fashion designers Ev Bravado and Téla D'Amore on a 30-piece capsule that pays tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s legacy, available to shop August 1.

Alexis Adler discusses images she took of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat when they lived together in 1979.

Basquiat in LA: Everything you need to know about new exhibit Tickets are now on sale for the “Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure” exhibition at The Grand LA running March 31-July 31.