Tamra Davis’ new documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child opens with grainy, previously unseen footage of the 25-year-old Basquiat at the height of his career. Just two years later, in 1988 ...

An exhibition at the Brant Foundation's New York space reveals how much he had in common with Jenny Holzer and Hans Haacke. Jean-Michel Basquiat In Italian (1983 ...

A big cheer went up when someone tugged the string that removed the sheaf concealing the “Jean-Michel Basquiat Way” street ...

Anti-Baseball Card Product, 1979 © Jennifer Von Holstein and The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York Basquiat dancing at the Mudd Club in ...

Back in 1980, some of Jean Michel Basquiat’s earliest works were thrown away as rubbish when a New York shop boy fell three months behind on his rent. He was an employee of Patricia Field, who ran a ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat reigned as the quintessential 1980s art star. Topped with a tangle of dreadlocks and draped in Commes de Garçon finery, he attracted parasitic hangers-on, beguiled groupies and ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat was at his happiest in the early days of his career, says his friend Jennifer Stein It's almost 30 years since Jean-Michel Basquiat died in New York. Aged just 27, he'd been ...

Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat was among best-selling artists at auction in 2021, with more than a dozen of his works selling for upwards of $400 million collectively, as his larger-than-life ...