Tag: Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Brian Vincent and Heather Spore – interview: ‘Edward Brezinski really is the archetype of what it means to be a struggling artist’
On the occasion of their first feature documentary, the film-makers Brian Vincent and Heather Spore discuss the allure of New York’s East Village demi-monde, as observed in Make Me Famous, their vivid and melancholy portrait of the forgotten artist Edward…
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Although this year’s fair had to be pared back, it nevertheless showcased a diverse and exciting range of perspectives on modern life and African identity
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Francesco Clemente: Pastels
A career-spanning selection of pastels by the transavantguardia stalwart is best when at its most whimsical and extempore
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Leila Heller – interview: ‘The Upper East Side is hot again and I love being back’
Gallerist Leila Heller talks about showing Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s, after meeting them in New York clubs, promoting artists from the Middle East, her current show curated by Warhol’s muse – and why she has just…
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Sara Piccinini – interview: ‘We don’t want to give an idea of completeness with this exhibition, that’s not our goal’
In 2007, the formidable art collection of Achille Maramotti, the man behind the Max Mara fashion house, was opened to the public. Sara Piccinini, senior coordinator of the collection, talks about the history of the collection, and the thinking behind…
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Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
The Whitney’s pantheon exhibition, of close to 300 works, sidelines Andy, the pop artist marketed on posters and mugs, to reveal Warhol, the visionary become meme with a signature vocabulary that still colours the culture
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Basquiat: Boom for Real
A revelatory exhibition at the Barbican liberates Jean-Michel Basquiat from his mythos and allows his art to speak for itself
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Reflections on the Self: From Dürer to Struth
This exhibition explores the genre of the self-portrait, looking at the ways in which more than 50 artists from the 1400s onwards have sought to visualise the self
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Prospect.3: Notes for Now
New Orleans plays host to 58 artists from around the world – including Theaster Gates, Carrie Mae Weems, Agus Suwage and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as many less familiar names – for Prospect.3, whose dominant theme is race and identity
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Interview with John Mellencamp
Lilly Wei: You’ve had two museum shows of your paintings recently, the first at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville last year and now this one at the Butler. Would you talk a little about your painting? Although less widely…
