The photographer who captured Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat as boxing champions for a series of publicity pictures says that Robert Mapplethorpe was initially lined up to take the famous ...

There are also flashes of humor, such as Michael Halsband's 1985 photo of artists Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in boxing gear: ... or Harry Benson's famous shot of a very young Muhammad ...

Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat stand side-by-side, arms crossed, each wearing Everlast boxing gloves and shorts. Warhol, in his signature black turtleneck, holds his gloved hands up around his ...

Basquiat's apartment at 57 Great Jones Street ... saloon and bare-knuckle boxing venue that is rumored to have served as the headquarters for the Five Points Gang, which counted mobsters like ...

and “Untitled (Boxer)” sold for $13.5 million in New York in 2008. Diego Cortez, the curator who was instrumental in launching the career of Basquiat, previously described the late artist as ...

Robinson died in 1989 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. In Basquiat’s painting, Robinson’s “muscular frame is defined by his broad shoulders, which nearly ...

With a little help from his sisters, more than 200 rarely seen pieces by the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat are going to be on display in downtown Los Angeles later this month. Tickets are now ...