But since his death, Basquiat has only found more fame. “When an artist dies, their value goes up,” Sargent said. “It has something to do with no more work being made and out of scarcity. ...

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 ...

Here’s Why 2021 Was Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Year, Decades After His Death (Photos) ByCarlie Porterfield, Former Staff. I cover breaking news. Dec 23, 2021, 12:32pm EST Apr 21, 2022, 08:13am EDT.

25 Basquiat paintings may be fake since the cardboard FedEx box one of ... ,” was painted on a FedEx box bearing a typeface that the shipping company designed six years after Basquiat’s death.

In 1989, a year after Basquiat’s death, at twenty-seven, from a heroin overdose, Haring had a decorator put it into a fancy gilt frame and hung it above his bed. (Haring succumbed to AIDS the ...

A bizarre spat has broken out in the Warhol-era art set over who “killed” Jean-Michel Basquiat. Author Anthony Haden-Guest is complaining bitterly that Factory alum and journalist Glenn O ...

Critics cooed over its attractions: a Ferris wheel designed by Jean-Michel Basquiat, a carousel painted by Keith Haring, and ...

More than 30 years after his death, at age 27, Basquiat’s influence in artistry lives on in those who are both inspired and intrigued by his work — including his family.

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 ...

Basquiat painted “The Death of Michael Stewart” on a wall of Keith Haring’s studio in NoHo in 1983. In 1985, Haring cut out a portion of drywall and his friend Sam Havadtoy added a frame ...

Although Michael Stewart became something of an icon to many graffiti writers — a kind of hip-hop martyr whose death inspired works by Basquiat, Keith Haring and others — it's a role that his ...