Stewart’s death shocked the city’s artists, many of whom had known him personally. It resonated in particular with young Black men such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Fred Brathwaite, known as ...

Die young, stay pretty," Blondie sang on the 1979 album Eat to the Beat, and the band's friend Jean-Michel Basquiat seemed to take the advice to heart. In 1988, seven years after breaking out as a ...

In an excerpt from ‘The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart’s New York,’ author Elon Green recounts the young artist’s killing at the hands of police and its impact ...

As theGRIO reported, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s untimely death in 1988 has not ended the reverence that art collectors have for his work. His paintings are often covered in words and doodles.

Their father, Gerard Basquiat, created and cared for his son’s estate until his death in 2013, when the sisters took over. “Our dad held on to a lot of things,” Heriveaux says. “He held on ...

The Basquiat exhibit curated by the UCLA alum who holds a Master of Fine Arts, centered on the revered artist’s raw, painful response to the death of another young Black artist, 25-year-old ...

Friends of Basquiat are furious with the late artist’s relatives, who have been commercializing his art on products he wouldn't approve. In a report by the New York Post on Nov. 15., friends of ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat has become one of the most culturally significant artists of all time since his death in 1988, two years shy of his 30th birthday. It’s hard to believe that as revered as he ...

A former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the museum in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of a probe into several forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has died.

Jean-Michel Basquiat's apartment on Great Jones Street is now available for ... An article from 1905 reported that a “desperate fight” in the building had led to several injuries and one death.