Inspired by Basquiat my chariot’s on fireĮverybody took shots, hit my body up, I’m tiredīuild me up, break me down to build me up again. Art people are talking about Basquiat and regular people are talking about art.
It will be the first such retrospective of the artist’s work. In early 2015 the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will mount a large-scale Basquiat exhibition with 100 works from public and private collections throughout the world. In Miami the W Hotel hosted an ’80s inspired pop art exhibition including works from Warhol and Basquiat.
The pop star and contemporary artist have a relationship the likes of which we haven’t seen since Debbie Harry was buying paintings from her friend, the emerging artist Basquiat.īasquiat’s work is part of the contemporary art renaissance. At this year’s Art Basel Miami, the luxury watchmaker Hublot was a major sponsor, Leonardo DiCaprio flew in to sniff out some supermodel pussy, and both Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus had artworks on display. The Art Basel art fairs, once the domain of ArtReview and Wallpaper*, are moving into E! Network territory. The world of contemporary art is shifting. It ain’t hard to tell, I’m the new Jean-Michel Widow Basquiat is about the artist, about Mallouk, and about the indulgent, hedonistic ’80s art world but is only being printed in its first American edition in 2014. Widow Basquiat was first published in 2000 in the U.K. Widow Basquiat: A Love Story is a biography of Suzanne Mallouk, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s long-time lover and muse, written by their friend Jennifer Clement. He knew the museum and its collection intimately and he challenged Mallouk to pick out a work by a black artist. The artist Jean-Michel Basquiat once took his lover Suzanne Mallouk on a trip to the MoMA.
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