Jean-Michel Basquiat was a “Punk” graffiti artist turned internationally renowned artist who was influential during the Neo-Expressionism art movement. In a rare 1982 interview in New York City by ...

On this program we see a rare interview with the mercurial painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat, conducted in 1981 in his studio on Crosby Street, in SOHO. Basquiat, an internationally renowed as well as the ...

On the occasion of his 50th birthday, the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel / Switzerland, is devoting the first large exhibition ever held in Europe to the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat ...

Tamra Davis was working in a Los Angeles gallery in 1986 when she filmed an interview with her friend, Jean-Michel Basquiat, by then the glimmering star of the art world. When he died in 1988 of a ...

A look back at a 1983 Jean-Michel Basquiat interview forced me to once again consider Toni Morrison's reverberating words. In "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination," she argued that ...

In May this year a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for $110.5 million USD. The sale, impressive in and of itself, saw the late artist break numerous records, with the picture becoming the most ...

Saint or sinner? Basquiat's 1982 self-portrait is ambiguous This fascinating trawl through the downtown scene in the late 1970s and early ‘80s takes you to SOHO where, having dropped out of high ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat never lived to see his full potential, but his legacy remains celebrated around the world. The legendary New York artist reached commercial success in the 1980's and was one of ...