TOP 5 Basquiat art books & stuff you can buy now
17 July 2020 • Mark Westall
This week we have five great art books & stuff you can get right now featuring or about Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was a renowned American Neo-expressionist artist. He gained fame in the 1980s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, known for enigmatic messages.
Basquiat’s art moved beyond the streets, exhibited globally in the early 1980s. At just 21, he became the youngest artist in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he exhibited at the prestigious Whitney Biennial in New York, later receiving a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1992.
His art explored dichotomies like wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. Combining poetry, drawing, and painting, Basquiat merged text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical references with contemporary critique. His works featured social commentary, introspecting and connecting with the black community, while challenging power structures and racism.
Since his untimely death at 27 in 1988, Basquiat’s art has soared in value. In 2017, “Untitled” sold for a staggering $110.5 million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased.
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s short yet influential career left a lasting impact on the art world, with his unique vision and social commentary resonating with audiences today. His legacy as an innovative and groundbreaking artist continues to inspire and provoke thought.
17 July 2020 • Mark Westall
This week we have five great art books & stuff you can get right now featuring or about Jean-Michel Basquiat.
17 July 2020 • Mark Westall
This week on FADTV we have Jean Michel Basquiat.
15 June 2020 • Mark Westall
Meural Canvas II powered by NETGEAR is a sophisticated WiFi connected digital canvas that is designed to bring the world of art into your home or office.
29 February 2020 • Mark Westall
This exhibition brings together the eminent works of Jean-Michel Basquiat (b. 1960) and Georg Baselitz (b. 1939) from 1981-1982, emphasising a period which has become pivotal not only for the oeuvre of each artist, but for international contemporary art in general.
18 April 2019 • Mark Westall
In an unprecedented, world premiere exhibition, the National Gallery of Victoria will present the work of two of the most significant and influential artists of the late twentieth century in Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat
24 March 2019 • Mark Westall
Nahmad Contemporary is showing Jean-Michel Basquiat | Xerox. Curated by Basquiat scholar Dieter Buchhart, the exhibition is the first concentrated examination of the extraordinary body of work that the artist created using Xerox photocopies as his principal medium and compositional focal point
4 January 2019 • Mark Westall
The release of 100 white helium-filled balloons will mark the opening of Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band as a tribute to the anniversary of the You Are Here opening
5 December 2018 • Mark Westall
BASTIAN is to present Andy Warhol Polaroid Pictures as its inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new London space
26 September 2018 • Mark Westall
Announced yesterday on Instagram, the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat will release a new 18-colour screen-print of the artist’s 1982-83 painting Boxer Rebellion, published by Flatiron Editions.
8 June 2018 • Mark Westall
From opposite ends of the 20th century, and opposite sides of the world, the lives and works of Egon Schiele and Jean-Michel Basquiat are fascinating for their fleetingness and their intensity.
19 April 2018 • Mark Westall
BOOM FOR REAL: THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT follows Basquiat’s life pre-fame and how New York City, the times, the people and the movements surrounding him formed the artist he became
29 March 2018 • Mark Westall
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Flexible has been consigned directly from the artist’s estate, this sale marks the work’s first time ever being offered for sale, publicly or privately. Estimated to sell in excess of $20 million, Flexible is the highest-value and largest work to ever have been offered from the Estate.
15 January 2018 • Mark Westall
Japanese art collector Yusaku Maezawa has revealed that the Brooklyn Museum will be the first stop on a world tour of his blockbuster Jean-Michel Basquiat painting which he bought for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s last spring.
6 December 2017 • Mark Westall
A look at Jean-Michel Basquiat’s life pre-fame, and how New York City, the times, the people and the movements around him formed the artist he became, BOOM FOR REAL weaves the story of Jean-Michel and the city with never before seen works, writings and photographs.
18 September 2017 • Mark Westall
Banksy has produced two murals at the Barbican centre seemingly inspired by the upcoming Basquiat exhibition #BoomForReal.
11 September 2017 • Mark Westall
Too Young For What? is a free day of art and activities – an explosion of creativity across the Barbican Centre – inspired by Basquiat: Boom For Real
3 September 2017 • Syndicate
The graffiti artist turned painter became the star of the 1980s New York art scene. Since his death aged 27, his reputation has soared. On the eve of a major UK show, we speak to those who knew him best
22 August 2017 • Mark Westall
The exhibition at ROKEBY consists of a selection of black and white photographs, and colour slides, taken by Adler of Basquiat the apartment and the work he produced there.
16 August 2017 • Mark Westall
A range of Basquiat art skateboards created by The Skateroom are now available through the Barbican Shop, to accompany Basquiat: Boom for Real
2 August 2017 • Mark Westall
Pace Gallery will present the first major exhibition of Jean Dubuffet’s work at its gallery in London, made even more remarkable by the fact that 2017 marks the fiftieth year that Pace has represented Dubuffet.
12 June 2017 • Mark Westall
Basquiat: Boom for Real is the first large-scale exhibition in the UK of the work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). One of the most significant painters of the 20th century
4 October 2016 • Mark Westall
Basquiat: Boom for Real is the first large-scale exhibition in the UK of the work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960—1988).
6 November 2015 • daniel barnes
The perennial question that dare not speak its name on pain of heresy is this: what, precisely, is it about Basquiat that inspires such adoration and extravagance?
13 May 2015 • Mark Westall
We’ve already had curator Rick Heron and now we bring you Super PR Richard Scott who’s company actually handles the PR for Frieze..