“Basquiat: Boom for Real” at the Barbican Art Gallery in London thrusts ’80s provocateur Jean-Michel Basquiat back into the spotlight.

Jean-Michel Basquiat's art has always been steeped in language. From the beginning of a spectacular career that began with graffiti and continued with partnerships that included Andy Warhol and ...

His series "Word on the Street" features cave-like drawings painted in a black grid on cardboard. The symbolism and simplistic style of these paintings reminds us of Basquiat's work. Maria Lankina ...

The drawing was sourced from one of Basquiat’s sketchbooks, created when the artist was 17 years old. It was rarely seen until licensing company Artestar hooked Tesfaye up.

He has become a one-word bridge between hip-hop and the art world. Mobb Deep, Gym Class Heroes, Jay-Z , Kanye West, Swizz Beatz , Nas, Lil’ Wayne, Phonte, and Ja Rule have each referenced him on ...

For months after the FBI raided Orlando Museum of Art over suspected fraudulent art attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat, word from the institution was that things were not as bad as they seemed.

In “Seeing Loud: Basquiat in Music” at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, music both sets the stage for and unlocks the meaning of the artist’s enduring, resonant work ...

Basquiat also reimagined pivotal moments in history through the lens of the Swiss Alps. In Big Snow (1984), he uses the Alpine setting to explore Jesse Owens ’ 1936 win at the Berlin Olympics.

Former trustees of Orlando Museum of Art say they were kept in the dark about the FBI’s interest in the now infamous exhibition of purported Basquiat artworks — and that museum leadersh… ...

The New York-based firm, which sells fractional shares in fine art to retail investors, bought this iconographic Basquiat from a private collector in May for US$33.05 million.

“Basquiat: Boom for Real” at the Barbican Art Gallery in London thrusts ’80s provocateur Jean-Michel Basquiat back into the spotlight.