Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart’s New York,’ author Elon Green recounts the young artist’s killing at the hands of police and its impact on the art world.
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.
The artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for his subversive graffiti-inspired style, is commonly associated with New York City in the 1980s. Now, a new exhibition reveals a lesser-known source of ...
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting “Sabado por la Noche,” or “Saturday Night,” will be the centerpiece of Christie’s evening ...
He also recalled how the gallery lost a work of his art — a mirror Basquiat painted over at the gallery with a crown and "SAMO," a tag used during his graffiti days — when it was scrubbed by a ...
Aaron De Groft, a former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the institution under a cloud in 2022 after it was raided ...
De Groft believed Basquiat created the works featured in the show in 1982—the year many experts consider his best artistically—while the artist lived and worked at the Venice, California home ...
Valter Casotto is an artist ... He made a Basquiat-themed sculpture for Rihanna's 30th birthday. 6.) Daniel Fahlström paints photo-realistic Mylar balloons. He replaces traditional graffiti ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Lawsuits filed in relation to a 2022 scandal involving allegations of phony artwork on display at the Orlando Museum of Art have recently been dropped. According to The ...
The long and winding saga of the Basquiat scandal at Orlando Museum of Art took a big step toward closure Monday as the museum and the family of former director Aaron De Groft — who died last ...