The Making of an Icon” reveals details about the artist’s life and the forces that shaped his market rise after his death.

Basquiat rose from an unknown artist to one of prestige, and his works feature themes of wealth versus poverty, as well as racism and colonialism within the neo-expressionism movement. Four of ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict' (1982) signed, titled and dated ‘JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT 1982 “PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DERELICT” (on the reverse of the left ...

Thanks to a handful of money men, the neo-expressionist – who died in 1988 – has been transformed from New York scenester ...

A young man and woman tried to snatch a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting from a Chelsea gallery earlier this month. DCPI Two would-be art thieves tried to snatch a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting from a ...

Although he is essentially synonymous with the New York underground scene of the 1980s, Jean-Michel Basquiat also traveled frequently through Asia and Europe. On one trip to Modena, Italy, in 1982, he ...

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Police are looking for a couple they say strolled into a Manhattan art gallery and tried to walk out with a $45,000 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting last weekend, authorities say. The woman, who has long ...

Struggling artists need not apply. The former Noho studio and digs where the late, great Jean-Michel Basquiat spent the last five years of his life is on the rental market — for a cool $60,000 a month ...

Inside the launch party, Longshore mingled with her mostly downtown peers, including Amanda Lepore, Christian Siriano, ...

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