It was a hot summer evening in New York City, and my family and I found ourselves walking through “Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure.” As an art enthusiast, once I heard this exhibition was in town, ...
It is now one of 13 Basquiats in their eponymous LA Broad museum, and another of the museum loans to this exhibition. Coincidentally, Basquiat is the big draw at Luna Luna, an amusement park ...
In the 1970s, Basquiat gained attention as a graffiti artist for his scrawled phrases and pictograms of crowns and copyright signs. By 1981, he had abandoned the walls of buildings for canvas.
Head on over to the City of Dreams to see Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first-ever debut exhibition in Macau. This showcase charts the legendary American artist’s rise from New York street artist to ...
The next lot, a double self-portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat from 1983 that had previously belonged to actor-turned-artist Johnny Depp, had one of the night’s highest estimates at $10m to $15m.
Sotheby’s will pay more than $6 million to settle claims it helped clients avoid paying taxes on high-priced art from masters like Basquiat by pretending the big-money collectors were resellers.