Basquiat’s paintings are selling for eight figures long after his death in 1988.

“Basquiat is still incredibly popular, probably more so than ever, because he brought exotic and fascinating elements of different cultures together into works that made statements,” Musto added.

His death hardly stilled the controversy. That the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is opening an exhibit of more than 100 of Basquiat's works today -- the second major retrospective since his death ...

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

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.

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 ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat painting ‘Warrior’ / Twitter As theGRIO reported, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s untimely death in 1988 has not ended the reverence that art collectors have for his work.

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.

Visitors to "Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure," now in Los Angeles, walk through the late artist’s studio and connect with him on a personal level ...

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 ...