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 ...

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 ...

Annina Nosei, the former Basquiat dealer, told me that within a year or two of the artist’s death, she discovered that a well-known gallerist—who’d worked closely with him—had sold a ...

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.

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 ...

Valentino’s Basquiat Painting Expected to Fetch Over $45 Million at Auction The painting, ... 35 years after his death in 1988, Basquiat has become synonymous with luxury.

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.

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 ...

Basquiat’s artwork has fetched prices upward of $100 million since his death in 1988. They are often the targets of forgers, and several art collection websites warn of fakes and offer advice in ...

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 ...

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 ...

But in 1982, when the art was said to have been painted before Basquiat’s 1988 death, Barzman was only 4 years old. Auctioneer admits to helping create fakes shown as Basquiats in Orlando.