The paintings bore many of the hallmarks of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the late New York painter celebrated for his distillations of class and social conflict. They were painted on cardboard, and they had ...
A former auctioneer has admitted he helped create and verify 25 fake Basquiat paintings that were seized from the Orlando Museum of Art last year, according to authorities. Michael Barzman, 45, ...
On the heels of a new Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition opening in Los Angeles — one that purports to get to the truth of who the late artist really was — news regarding Basquiat forgeries, shown in a ...
Basquiat’s output was wild and varied. What can you tell me about Baby Boom? What makes it special? 1982 would have been fairly early in his career, right? Baby Boom was painted in 1982 and included ...
A look back at a 1983 Jean-Michel Basquiat interview forced me to once again consider Toni Morrison's reverberating words. In "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination," she argued that ...
"Jean-Michel," directed by Quinn Whitney Wilson and Viridiana Lieberman (it just premiered at the Tribeca Festival and was ...
A month after a New York Times article illuminated doubts about the authenticity of the works in Orlando Museum of Art’s Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition, the chairwoman of the institution’s board of ...
This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: And I'm going to start the bidding here. $57 million, $58 million now.