Jean-Michel Basquait died on this day, twenty-seven years ago today [this was 2015 – sic] (has it really been that long?)
Recently up (2015) at Brooklyn Museum a selection from Basquiat’s Notebooks
Don’t miss on Hyperallergic – Megan Liberty – “An Intimate Reading of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s poetry“.
Here‘s the ever-perceptive Luc Sante on Basquiat’s Notebooks in the New York Times
Rene Ricard‘s groundbreaking December 1981 article (on Basquait and Keith Haring) in Artforum – “The Radiant Child“ can be found here<
“Five Fish Species”, Basquait’s hommage to his hero, William S Burroughs came up for auction at Sotherby’s a couple of years ago, and can be seen in reproduction here:
2018 addenda – respect for and interest in Basquiat continues to grow unabated – Check out this trailer for Sara Driver’s Boom For Real – The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
More on that movie (an interview with Sara Driver) – here
Lol never heard of him and apparently no one else has either,
And here I am reading my poem, Jean-Michel Basquiat, celebrating the achievement of this great artist, at the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate his studio. My reading starts at the 16:00 minute mark, but the whole vid is filled with potent oratory and poetry:
and no one will ever hear of you, ah
Anonymous. …… This man’s artwork just sold for 110.5 Million dollars at Sotheby’s auction. So the only unknown loser here is you