Friends of Jean-Michel Basquiat are upset that the late artist's sisters have commercialized his legacy on products including a welcome mat. Ruggable If you want to buy a painting by Jean-Michel ...

"Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure" opened recently in New York City. It features 200 never-before-seen and rare paintings, drawings and artifacts from Basquiat, who died in 1988 at age 27.

Jean-Micheal Basquiat may have died in 1988, but he is having a big career moment once again.. Last weekend, it was revealed that the FBI’s art crime team is investigating the authenticity of 25 ...

Basquiat also shared interests with artist Shenge Ka Pharaoh regarding African ideologies and issues facing Black communities. Jawbone of an Ass, 198. (The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat ...

In a grainy home movie from 1968 — well before he had started on the path that led him to art world fame and an untimely death — an 8-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat, dressed smartly in long ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982 James Van der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. After repeated visits to the Jean-Michel Basquiat “King Pleasure” exhibit at Starrett-Lehigh, what this ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat was 15 years old when his Haitian father caught him smoking pot in his room and in the scuffle, stabbed his son in the ass with a knife. It was then — Basquiat would later say — ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American street artist who became well known in the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement, a postmodern style recognized for its bold use of color, emotional ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s short life is explored by friend and actor/director Roger Guenveur Smith in a moving ... As an artist, Basquiat often took this kind of subversive approach in work that ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat paints in 1983 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Lee Jaffe/Getty Images. Now, the artist’s estate is offering up numbered editions of the 1983 Beat Bop track.Featuring graffiti ...

The New York apartment where Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked for the last five years of his life has hit the rental market for $60,000 a month, as demand for the late artist’s work ...