is anyone wanna thinks about that Jean-Michel Basquiat?

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Saw this:
http://www.filmforum.org/films/basquiat.html

I can't say it's a great film but I have a feeling it would be very hard to make an uninteresting film about him since he was just so damned charismatic and interesting.

Definitely too worshipful, too fast and tries to cram in too many different narratives of his life, but worth seeing anyway. I definitely came away with more appreciation and understanding of his work. I think like a lot of people I went through a phase where I liked Basquiat because I thought he was cool and then another phase where I disliked his work because I thought I was too sophisticated for it. I came away thinking that Van Gogh actually is a good figure for comparison, at least in terms of the way I view Van Gogh -- an enormously talented and skilled painter with a singular style that doesn't quite represent any particular movement of his time, with enormous popular appeal and a tendency to overdo things.

Thanks Hurting, been looking forward to this.

yea was listening to npr and they interviewed tamra davis, would go see or rent or netflix that mofo
confused abt the name 'the radiant child' wasn't that keith haring's thing?

http://www.designboom.com/history/basquiat/16.jpg

Nobody?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/BeatBop.jpg

in response to something upthread: sam gilliam and alma thomas are two awesome african american painters who are very pre-basquiat. alma thomas was the first black woman to have a solo show at the whitney

Big Basquiat/Warhol collab retrospective in Copenhagen later this year, looking forward to seeing this. They did a lot more work than is really known about or widely seen, much more than their original disastrous 1985 show.

For those in Washington DC:

Sun. Oct. 9 "Downtown 81" movie doc starring late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and featuring James Chance, Amos Poe, Walter Steding, and Tav Falco, Doors Open at 3:30pm, Film Screens at 4:00pm {Free} Pre-Registration Strongly Encouraged. At the Corcoran https://getinvolved.corcoran.org/downtown81 Q&A Following the screening, Maripol and Michael Holman discuss the film, and the art and music scene in New York during the late 1970's and early 1980's.

This is the longest of long shot requests.

Are there any Danish dudes who can report back on the Warhol/Basquiat exhib that's just started at the Arken Museum outside Copenhagen, I'm considering heading over to see it but I wanna know how much there is before I do.

RIP René Ricard

http://galleristny.com/2014/02/rene-ricard-has-died/

Nobody appears to give a shit judging by this thread but anyway - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b098pd3q/basquiat-rage-to-riches

I'd deffo love to go to that Barbican retrospective, only ever seen the odd JMB piece in the flesh, and that was 20 years ago.

At the Serpentine?

It's a great exhibition, lot's of paintings that I didn't expect to ever see irl, and quite a lot of the bigger well known works are totally absent.

yep it was at the Serpentine, but i had to do a quick google, in my memory it was a gallery in one of the royal parks that I couldn't remember the name of.

My partner is actually thinking of blowing the last dregs of her savings account to go this.

Well, 20 years since the last one, Paris and other places in Europe have had retrospectives fairly recently, soooo...

I've never thought much of his work but I'm ready to have my mind changed.

You can see irl JMBs at The Broad in LA for free

jesus, 16 quid to see an exhibition is a lot.

http://thesnobette.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/basquiat-skull-painting-620x413.jpg

This guy paid $110 million for the painting this past spring. I guess he's sending it on a world tour now.

I love Basquiat and the everyday is living in art thing that I romanticize his life to have been.

27 is such a ridiculous age to die.

I also like the album he put out with his band Gray:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fedmYKBom28

fun to watch this at .5% speed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExDfj-_D6Sk