...Matthew DeBord Copyright © 1995 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1995 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pegasus, 1987 (Acrylic, pencil, colored pencil on paper on canvas-•88" x 90 Private Collection. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Courtesy of Robert Miller Gallery, NYC. JEAN-MICHEL...

...Jordana Moore Saggese In 1992, during the first retrospective of Basquiat’s work, Richard Marshall lamented: “Jean-Michel Basquiat first became famous for his art, then he became famous for being famous, then he became famous for being infamous—a succession of reputations that often overshadowed...

...Amy Abugo Ongiri Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 Downtown 81: A Tribute to JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT Showing in the Whitney Biennial at 22, dead of a heroin overdose at 27, the life of Jean Michel Basquiat is surely...

...Cherise Smith Jordana Moore Saggese’s Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art is a monographic study of Jean-Michel Basquiat, an artist who experienced a near meteoric rise and fall. In four chapters, the author gives the artist’s work the scholarly and historical attention...

... of ics of the skeleton, and diagrammatic 1980s, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat color and composition, the suite makes internal organs. The two aforemen• remains largely misunderstood...

..., At the end of the film, we see with success cut out, just [ike that. Basquiat again as a child, captive in The figure of Jean Michel Basquiat...

..., Williams (who claimed to be inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat) found his artis• tic voice as a budding filmmaker. His skill as an auteur...

...—and the joke's always on same way they spoke about Robin Rhode's press release for Art-with-a-capital-A. Having said Jean-Michel Basquiat. No doubt Living in Public (oh, ah, yes, ah, that, Rhode is totally committed that co-opting the public lan...

... Basquiat" on that the power of her analysis reveals -Okwui Enwezor publishing books by the truckload, the late painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. just how fragile and vulnerable she hooks like I...

...• afternoons. Viewers may observe traditions of Andy Warhol and has nothing to do with the girls rior topography of a chaotic desk this diminutive study, described Jean-Michel Basquiat, the other than insulting them...

... in the proverbial white box gallery venue in which Wiley, from the start, was staking his professional claim. In this sense, his art career harks back to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s high- pro le outsider-insider art persona, as well as the multifaceted charge of Thelma Golden’s game-changing...

... meeting and ultimate friendship with Jean- Michel...

.... Photo: Melissa Blackall Naçi Nka 163 Jack Whitten say that, for him, art making felt as though he was fighting for his life. Similarly, it felt as though it [the work] wanted something from me, she says.10 The influences of Jean-Michel Basquiat s abstraction and figuration, the experimentalism...

... to the 1971 Attica prison uprising. A half-dozen works by others incorpo- rated flag-derived imagery, including David Driskell s collage Of Thee I Weep (1968), a scrappy, pictographic war protest that redirects synthetic cubism toward Jean-Michel Basquiat s section- al graffiti and one of several of David...

..., this time a thick, uneven, wood affair, to which are emblematic summary of Nazi atrocity robs space from the attached geometric forms (I was reminded of several of rest of the painting while continuing to participate in the Jean-Michel Basquiat's "rough" frames for his early...

... in contemporary art was in crisis. Of course, Africa at the expense of an exhibition by the it's not, but without a thoughtful exhibition arguably more relevant Jean-Michel Basquiat.11 frame, what these "documentary" works say is too But that the next such exhibition will come from similar, creating...

... include works that bring Cy Twombly and the current turmoil around the world, the Biennale’s Jean-Michel Basquiat to mind. The project captures Eventi del 1974 has been a curatorial inspiration. the unlimited potential of cross-cultural creativity and collaboration and is a perfectly natural exten...

... of their own personal histories to ­Michel Basquiat. With them I share a sense of solidarity, as identify with experiences perceived in the work. This is done their ideas affirm mine. My work is created on the floor. The in an effort to bring them closer to an understanding of what canvases are unstretched...

.... But maybe Wiley "is himself" now be exhausted, given that the terms of the Campbell soup can: the urban fetish/fetishist. reading the black body in public space have Like the 1980s "golden child" Jean-Michel now been codified. And then, there's a Basquiat, Wiley...

... center has opened in tinent, and for catalogs, journals, and the dis• Benin, where a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition courses to be developed from the continent. This took place a few months ago; they have shown would also apply to the creation of new museums Romuald Hazoume...