One of them showed Julian Schnabel as a pig wearing a crown. When Schnabel made his preemptive strike on art history, Basquiat (1996), a sort of Amos ’n’ Andy Lust for Life, or Stepin Fetchit’s The Agony and the Ecstasy, Gerard Basquiat, Jean-Michel’s pop, had the plate made into a cool T-shirt. I am wearing it right now.

2013年8月1日 · Julian Schnabel, Basquiat, 1996, 35 mm, color, sound, 106 minutes. Andy Warhol (David Bowie). WHEN A NONACTOR appears in a movie role, it is as if a draft rushes in from some door left open backstage, rustling against the conventions of how movie people hold themselves, how professionals look at the camera or throw their voice.

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 ...

2025年1月21日 · 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 ...

2021年6月22日 · 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 ...

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.

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.

This is no graffito, this is no train, this is a Jean-Michel Basquiat. This is a Keith Haring. Both these artists are a success in the street where the most critical evaluation of a graffito takes place. Jean-Michel is proud of his large Samo Tag in a schoolyard, surrounded by other Tags on top of Tags, yet not marked over. This demonstrates ...

1992年10月23日 · 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.

2024年1月18日 · The Orlando Museum of Art, still reeling from a 2022 scandal that saw its highly touted exhibition of little-seen Jean-Michel Basquiat works raided by the FBI and its director fired after the paintings turned out to be fakes, is facing a large-scale financial crisis.