Jun 22, 2021 · A luminary of the Downtown New York art scene of the 1970s and ’80s and a cofounder of the era’s storied Mudd Club, Cortez notoriously organized the groundbreaking 1981 “New York/New Wave” exhibition at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, introducing the broader art world to Basquiat, Henry Chalfant, Sarah ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1981, acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 81 × 69 1⁄4″. This exhibition, curated by Dieter Buchhart in collaboration with the Brant Foundation, gathers an impressive 120 of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings, sculptures, and drawings, the majority of which have never before been exhibited in Europe.

Basquiat’s primitivism was the consummate gesture of this type, and was further inflected and complicated by his identity as an African-American. 3. Basquiat was not the first black artist to practice primitivism, but he surely was the first to force the situation on our awareness in a highly focused and self-conscious way. 4. W. E. B.

Basquiat’s line does not seem to me an expressionistic one, for it is a line with a characteristic distinguishable in these times: its attitude is not emotional but critical. A paradigmatic phrase inscribed in one of his paintings—K, 1982—is “disease culture,” and sickness is certainly one of the artist’s themes. Yet the line is ...

Mar 9, 2023 · Dafoe played van Gogh in the 2018 Julian Schnabel movie, but Inside also recalls his bit part in another Schnabel-directed biopic, 1996’s Basquiat, where he climbs down a ladder and into the shot to confide to Jean-Michel that he’s not just a handyman, he’s an artist, too. Inside opens in US theaters on March 10.

Nov 20, 2024 · Among the exhibitions she curated for the MCA are the Tara Donovan retrosepective “Fieldwork” (2018); “Basquiat Before Basquiat” (2017); and the first-ever survey of Senga Nengudi’s “R.S.V.P.” sculptures (2014). Abrams earlier worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York.

Jan 21, 2025 · Aaron De Groft, the onetime director and CEO of the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) who became the subject of an FBI investigation over his involvement with the museum’s display of fake Jean-Michel Basquiat works, has died at fifty-nine following a brief illness, according to an online obituary. De Groft had been working to clear his name in the ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat, With Strings Two, 1983, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 96 x 60″. I’ve never seen a commercial gallery show as well attended as this exhibition of nearly sixty works by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Oct 23, 1992 · First: could Basquiat’s prices hold with this much exposure? Answer: yes. The match race between Basquiat and Julian Schnabel continues. At the big New York and London auctions following the opening, Schnabel’s best was $165,000; a Basquiat made $228,000. His prices are at 50 or 60 percent of the earlier bull market and steadily rising.

Apr 28, 2006 · Thus, Dubuffet’s strong Mêle Moments, 1976—a particularly busy overlay of paper and painting with patches suggestive of abstraction—lacks the historical resonance of Basquiat’s Untitled (Black Tar and Feathers), 1982—a two-panel piece, the bottom literally tarred and feathered, the top, somber stick figures. Labeling Dubuffet as a ...