McEnroe loves art? You cannot be serious Jun 26, 2008
Our discussion turns to Jean-Michel Basquiat, the American graffiti artist who died of a drug overdose in 1988, and an artist I know he admires. McEnroe first came across Basquiat in the early '80s at Studio 54, where he was part of a group of artists - Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring and Francisco Clemente - decorating the club in a graffiti style. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Monet painting sells for $80.5 million Jun 25, 2008
At the same auction next Tuesday, the company is offering a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting owned by Irish rock group U2 and estimated at $7. 8 million to $11. (MSNBC -- News)
MAKING THE SCENE... Jun 22, 2008
Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat was a regular here until he overdosed in the house right across the street in 1988. Before the Bowery became hip, Jones regulars would often take to the streets for late night games of Wiffle ball. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Never Give Up Jun 14, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008 Last Update: 07:40 AM EDT. FRIDAY THE 13TH LUCKY FOR SOME. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Seasonal Sales Lack Spring May 17, 2008
2 million Jean-Michel Basquiat. Both major houses were able to claim fresh bragging rights. (Wall Street Journal)
Sotheby's Announces 2008 First Quarter Results May 9, 2008
Other featured works are by Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yves Klein and Tom Wesselmann. Also in New York, our American Paintings sale on May 22nd is highlighted by Edward Hick's Peaceable Kingdom, arguably the best of his career and estimated to achieve $6/8 million. (Primezone Releases)
Tribeca Preview 4 Apr 17, 2008
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More of this story Apr 12, 2008
The artwork included paintings, drawings, photos, rare photography books, artist-designed skateboards, album covers and other items created by figures including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ed Ruscha, and photographers Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince. Prices range from 5 books to a 300,000 collage by Prince. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Poet and playwright Wayne Corbitt Mar 1, 2008
Stanley Williams, artistic director of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, remembers working with Corbitt on his tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat, "A Fish With Frog's Eyes.". "He was a really exciting performer," Williams says. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Salvaging beauty from despair Feb 28, 2008
Schnabel, the painter who began his film career with a definitive biography of painter-hustler Jean Michel Basquiat and whose "Before Night Falls" captured the life of Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas (and launched Javier Bardem to stardom), does what only a non-film-school filmmaker could manage. He all but reinvents the first-person narrative. (Juneau Empire)
Renzo Piano's LA museum opens to public Feb 18, 2008
Important pieces by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein shift the weight back toward pop art and its progeny, which rule again on the floor below, with ensembles of work by Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The visitor leaves BCAM with a question not intended by the museum and its benefactors: Who could warm to this particular constellation of artworks as anything but a triumph of conspicuous consumption or speculative investment. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Missing Basquiat art reappears in NYC Feb 15, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) -- An $8 million painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat has been located in a Manhattan warehouse after apparently being smuggled out of Brazil, federal prosecutors said. Prosecutors filed papers Wednesday seeking to seize the 1982 painting, called "Hannibal," in an effort to help Brazilian authorities claim it. (FOX 11, AZ)
Basquiat painting found in warehouse Feb 15, 2008
The painting "Hannibal," worth$8 million,by Jean-Michel Basquiat was smuggled out of Brazil and kept in a Manhattan warehouse ... NEW YORK - An $8 million painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat has been located in a Manhattan warehouse after apparently being smuggled out of Brazil, federal prosecutors said. (MSNBC -- News)
Julian Schnabel, From Canvas To Camera Feb 4, 2008
A fond portrayal of Schnabel's friend and fellow artist, the late Jean-Michel Basquiat, the film was less glowing in its depiction of art critics. "When Chris Walken is interviewing Jeffrey Wright, it's more like an assassination than an interview," Schanbel said. (CBS News)
Hopes, dreams and a glimpse of the future Feb 1, 2008
That kind of conceptualism stands in contrast to Gina Dowdle's Stripped Bare By The HSC, a big canvas that mixed up quotations from George Gittoes and Ben Quilty, or Marko Hrubyj-Piper's Sun Flower Seeds, a colourful triptych executed in the style of Jean-Michel Basquiat. On the basis of these works it's hard to imagine that the warring families of art - conceptualism and expressionism - will find peace anytime soon. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Miracle worker Jan 25, 2008
Jean-Michel Basquiat. "Making films is a process of my paintings. I don't want to become a movie maker because I'm not looking for a job," he says, laughing. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
On The Outside, Looking In Jan 14, 2008
And while they haven't had lessons per se, the artists' influences are clear: Vladimir Nikolski's paintings have the bold reds and shapes of Chagall; Nelia Gibbs' balloon-headed woman recalls Magritte; and Anthony Newton's graffiti-like shapes suggest those of his hero, Jean-Michel Basquiat. The formerly homeless man has several works in this show, including "When Spirits Cry," a thickly layered oil of a face with yearning eyes. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Financial markets are struggling, but not the art market Dec 27, 2007
In oil producing countries like the United Arab Emirates, the appetite is for modern American works by such artists as Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat and Warhol, Peck said. The most money is chasing these modern and contemporary names, and that s just what s in fashion really, Peck said, adding that buyers with new money from Russia and China have a limitless appetite for Western art and objects. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
* US art market is booming despite Wall Street turmoil Dec 27, 2007
Jean-Michel Basquiat's Sugar Ray Robinson is displayed during a post-war and contemporary art auction at Christie's in New York on Nov. 13 ... In oil producing countries like the United Arab Emirates, the appetite is for modern American works by such artists as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Warhol, Peck said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Candy-filled art installation at Harvard is sweet but not sugarcoated Dec 13, 2007
For Gonzalez-Torres, whose work is largely installation-based and often ephemeral - thus not a hot commodity at auction houses like that of other artists who burned bright and died young, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat - the surge in attention is not market-driven. It has more to do with his themes of mortality, anti-elitism, and economics, which hit as close to home as they ever have. (Boston Globe)
Movies: "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly": A body unwilling, a mind's flight to freedom Dec 5, 2007
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Schnabel's younger colleague in the New York art scene of the 1980s, is trapped by addiction and by his outsider status. Reinaldo Arenas, the gay Cuban poet whose memoir was the basis of "Before Night Falls," is censored, harassed and locked up by successive dictatorships. (International Herald Tribune)
Julian Schnabel dives into an intriguing portrait with 'Bell' Dec 3, 2007
But it can no longer be denied that Schnabel has exhibited a creative spurt in the decade or so since his first biopic, 1996's Basquiat, based on the life of his friend, the artist and addict Jean-Michel Basquiat. (His second, 2000's Before Night Falls, earned an Oscar nomination for Javier Bardem. (USA Today -- Life)
The Diving Bell & Butterfly Dec 1, 2007
Schnabel's previous films Basquiat and Before Night Falls both explored the lives of real people who were in a way helpless to not follow their muses, and Bauby's story forms a trilogy of sorts for the director: like Jean Michel Basquiat and Reinaldo Arenas, the Elle editor almost compulsively expresses his creativity even when external forces conspire to suppress or restrain him from doing so. The film title's seemingly cryptic metaphor juxtaposes his physical incapacitation and his flourishing... (IGN FilmForce)
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," Dec 1, 2007
The painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has given us two previous pictures, both of them also based on true stories of men who are no longer with us, the 1996 "Basquiat," about '80s wunderkind painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the 2004 "Before Night Falls," based on the memoir of the Cuban poet and novelist Reynaldo Arenas. "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" -- which was made in France, with a cast of French actors -- is only Schnabel's third movie, but it's hard to imagine that any other,... (Salon)
EYE-CATCHING Nov 29, 2007
As part of director Julian Schnabel s Cool Lives of Artists series (following films on Jean-Michel Basquiat and Reinaldo Arenas), this is not about an artist in the traditional sense; it depicts how Jean-Dominque Bauby, the editor of French Elle magazine, managed to write his autobiography after suffering a stroke in the 1990s that paralyzed every muscle except his left eye. Schnabel understands what the imaginative life of an ambitious businessman and fashion capitalist like Bauby has in common... (New York Press)
Basquiat and Banksy to cover auction in graffiti Nov 26, 2007
Two decades later, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and David Salle are being hailed as the founding fathers of a modern-day art form. Now Bonhams auction house is to hold the world's first urban art auction sale, providing a "visual history" of how the genre they established came out of the slums to become the toast of the art world. (Independent)
London Jeweler Graff Spends $40 Million on Warhol, Basquiat, Diamonds Nov 17, 2007
Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- London jeweler and art collector Laurence Graff spent more than $40 million this week on Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings in New York, plus red and blue diamonds in Geneva, on a bet they'd appreciate in value. He paid $8. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Bacon and Koons lead $315.9 million sale Nov 16, 2007
The late Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose paintings continue to rise year after year, falls somewhere between past and present. The appeal of the parody of an enraged schoolboy's painted graffiti lies in its anti-establishment sloganeering power. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Warhol car crashes sales barrier Nov 14, 2007
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Window wonderland Nov 9, 2007
Soon afterwards he began working at Barneys and was inviting artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnabel to collaborate with him. Unsurprisingly, in an industry that depends on them, fashion's window displays aren't immune to trends. (Guardian Unlimited)
Mr. Popularity Oct 15, 2007
For proof of Brady's stratospheric ascent, take GQ magazine's recent list of the "50 most stylish men of the past 50 years." His company was improbable and staggering: Cary Grant, Elvis Presley, Marcello Mastroianni, Sean Connery, Miles Davis, the Kennedy brothers, George Clooney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marlon Brando, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Malcolm X, Bob Dylan, Yves Saint-Laurent, and Beck. Among athletes, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Arnold Palmer, Jean-Claude... (Boston Globe)
* Western collectors cash in on interest in Chinese paintings Oct 15, 2007
Warsh said that he planned to sell some of his collection, which includes pieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, to focus on China. The collector's decision shows that resources for many art buyers are finite, and purchases aren't always a sign that new money is coming into the market. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Francis Bacon a highlight of sale Oct 15, 2007
In addition to well-known artists like Bacon, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, David Hockney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy and Damien Hirst, the sales are also offering works from other parts of the world, with a strong Italian and Chinese presence, including Zhang Xiaogang and Zeng Fanzhi. AFP. (iAfrica.com)
Paris guru readies his latest 'Made by' edition Oct 13, 2007
Since opening his first gallery in Paris in 1988, at the urging of Ida Chagall, daughter of the painter Marc Chagall, Navarra has been a catalyst for the global recognition of many of the great names in contemporary art, from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring to, more recently, Tang Zhigang and Zhang Xiaogang. A consummate businessman, and a friend of rock stars and art collectors, Navarra has used his natural scouting talents and sense of adventure to explore new markets in... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Popping the art bubble Oct 7, 2007
An index of 100 contemporary artists compiled by Art Market Research (AMR), comprising artists from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Cy Twombly, has nearly quadrupled in value since 1997 and is up more than 50% over the past 12 months. Hirst s recent show at London s White Cube gallery, aptly entitled Beyond Belief, was a 125m sell-out. (Times Online)
Artist's portrait Sep 25, 2007
Anything by the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was a fantastic, primal painter. (Guardian Unlimited)
$7M Suit Over Bogus Basquiat Sep 19, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Last Update: 10:00 AM EDT. SIMPSON MIGHT WALK YET AGAIN. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Read on... Aug 6, 2007
Five people who I'd like to see answer this survey: Natalie Wood, June Carter Cash, Jessica Lange, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Diane von Furstenberg. Tori Spelling, whose second season of Tori Inn Love bows Aug. 14 on Oxygen. (Variety)
Tales from the Factory floor Aug 5, 2007
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel and the B-52s also pitched up. Walter Steding, Warhol's eccentric painting assistant, led the show's orchestra. (The Observer)
JPMorgan and Pera Museum Partner to Tour Renowned Corporate Art Collection Aug 1, 2007
The exhibition will feature works by leading artists, including Dan Flavin, Josef Albers, Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, Jean Dubuffet, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Several pieces are included because of their association with American pop culture, including Andy Warhol's silkscreened images of Marilyn Monroe. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Feast on fine artDowntown restaurant showcases works paying tribute to Cuba and great classic artists Jul 29, 2007
From here on in it's, "Could I sit at the Piet Mondrian table?" or "Is the Jean-Michel Basquiat table open?". That is what Penteado said he has been hearing at several visits since last Monday, after he finished putting in the tables and the installation. (West New York Reporter, NJ)
Words of the Prophet Jul 26, 2007
By the 1980s, graffiti makers such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat transitioned from the street to fine art galleries and museums, although fame and fortune couldn't save either of them from early deaths resulting from AIDS and drug abuse. As the movement to clean up graffiti began in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities, the colorful scrawling has moved to a more legitimate platform. (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
Best of British? Jul 5, 2007
In 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat was seen as a raw hero of authentic street art, revitalising American painting. But Basquiat's art exposes Banksy's. (Guardian Unlimited)
Maiden voyageFloating arts/antiques emporium makes Fairfield County its first port of call Jul 2, 2007
These are well-vetted dealers who have been involved with us for 10 to 15 years," she says. The dealer roster includes Adelson Galleries of New York, specialists in 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century American paintings; Artmophere, Rudoph Budja Galerie Salzburg, a dealer of modern and contemporary art by artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Damien Hirst, Robert Rauschenberg and Jean-Michel Basquiat; the by-appointment-only Gilan Jewelry in New York which caters to socialites and titans in... (Stamford Advocate)
Underground art resurfaces Jun 25, 2007
There is a tribute to the Mudd Club, a nightspot frequented by musician Lou Reed and artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The Mudd Club opened in the late 1970s and helped fuel the musical movements of punk rock and new wave. (USA Today -- News)
Art Imitating Art Jun 17, 2007
There are attempted forgeries from all eras, from a Cycladic head supposedly from 2,500 B.C. to works that rip off Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol or Jean-Michel Basquiat. Nancy Hall-Duncan, the exhibit's curator, says determining what is authentic is a great challenge when one takes into account the many fake, forged, copied, misattributed and replicated works in existence. (CTNow.com)
Warhol, Hirst Are Snapped Up at Art Basel as Kravis, Pinault Prowl Preview Jun 13, 2007
A Jean-Michel Basquiat went for more than $3 million at Van de Weghe Fine Art. Gagosian sold a Damien Hirst butterfly work, estimated at $1 million. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Eli Broad on the Art Bubble Jun 9, 2007
But look at [contemporary] artists--a Jean-Michel Basquiat brought in $18 million at Sotheby's, whereas we bought [one of his] works in 1982 for $5,000. If you compare that with what Old Masters are fetching at auction, you scratch your head. (BusinessWeek)
At contemporary sales, art seems beside the point May 19, 2007
Jean-Michel Basquiat must have spent hours analyzing the cartoons that schoolboys dash off in the teacher's absence to achieve his level of perfection. He painted, they sketch in chalks. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
In picturesWould you pay 36m to own this? A look at art's record-breakers May 18, 2007
This untitled work from US contemporary artist Jean-Michel Basquiat also fetched $14. 6m (7. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Huge bids smash modern art record May 17, 2007
New auction records were set for 15 artists in total, also including Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose untitled work from 1981 fetched $14. 6m (7. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Art auctions May 17, 2007
The most notable exception was Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose "Untitled" painting looking like an outsize cartoon shot up to $14. 6 million. (International Herald Tribune)
Rothko painting sets postwar record May 16, 2007
Another work, an untitled painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat from 1981, sold Tuesday for $14. 6 million, setting an auction record for the artist. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Rothko, Bacon Smash Records at Sotheby's `Crazy' $255 Million Art Auction May 16, 2007
Updated: New York, May 16 04:00 London, May 16 09:00 Tokyo, May 16 17:00. Rothko, Bacon Set Records at `Crazy' Sotheby's Sale (Update1). (Bloomberg -- US)
Weak Dollar Offers Little Comfort to Europe's Art Buyers at New York Sales May 14, 2007
Tom Wesselmann, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jackson Pollock may all set auctions records at Sotheby's tomorrow, said Westphal, who sits on Sotheby's European board and works with worldwide contemporary art chief Tobias Meyer in New York. Her role is to bring in European buyers. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Read More... May 8, 2007
This much is certain: around 1993, his graffiti began appearing on trains and walls around Bristol; by 2001, his blocky spray-painted signature had cropped up all over the United Kingdom, eliciting both civic hand-wringing and comparisons to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Vienna, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Paris followed, along with forays into pranksterism and more traditional painting, but Banksy has never shed the graffitists habit of operating under a handle. (Disinformation)
Obituary: Isabella Blow May 8, 2007
" That was how the fashion designer Alexander McQueen once described Isabella Blow, at various times fashion supremo of Tatler, Vogue and the Sunday Times, who has died in hospital aged 48 after suffering from cancer and depression.She was most famous as a talent-spotter and benefactor to young British designers. She championed McQueen after buying his entire graduate collection in 1992, and discovered and nurtured the milliner Philip Treacy, whose elaborate hats became her trademark. She also... (Guardian Unlimited)
Old Steel City embraces the arts Apr 29, 2007
A group of visitors to the Andy Warhol Museum view Warhol's "The Last Supper" while walking past a collaborative work with Jean-Michel Basquiat. ADVERTISER LINKS. (CNN -- Travel)
Chinese artists come out from behind the wall Apr 11, 2007
6m last year, Zhang Xiaogang was narrowly second to Jean-Michel Basquiat in the ArtPrice ranking of the 100 top-selling artists. But he was far from alone on the chart. (Guardian Unlimited)
MOCA planner is real party girl Mar 2, 2007
For the 2005 opening for Jean-Michel Basquiat, a fixture on the early '80s New York club scene, there was only one entertainer on Gonzalez's wish list: Grandmaster Flash. Starting a year in advance she worked to track him down, finally getting through to his manager, who had known Basquiat. (Los Angeles Times)
Poet's 'Confederate Dead' book brings history's characters to life Jan 22, 2007
He riffed on film noir in "Black Maria," blues in "Jelly Roll" (a finalist for the National Book Award), and the artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat in "To Repel Ghosts." He has also edited anthologies of blues and jazz poems, plus "Giant Steps: The New Generation of African-American Writers.". "Black Maria," which tells the story of a down-and-out private eye and a femme fatale cabaret singer, is being turned into a stage play premiering Feb. 1 at the Providence Black Repertory Company. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Strange Bedfellows Jan 20, 2007
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Street-smart graffiti artist ... Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982. (San Antonio Current, TX)
The afterlife of influence Jan 1, 2007
Others -- like New York painters Carroll Dunham, Cecily Brown, and the late Jean-Michel Basquiat -- have taken a lot from the manic and bawdy pictures at the other end of Picasso's career. Dana Schutz, who is represented by Feuer, says she admires Picasso "precisely for his versatility" and has taken lessons from his entire oeuvre: "freed up color, contradictory spaces, and liberatingly poor taste." And although her pictures of pill-poppers and self-devourers look very much like updated versions... (Boston Globe)
It's their time of the year Jan 1, 2007
" Instead, Pomegranate has beefed up its partnerships with museums and publishes more note cards, books and calendars connected to museum shows. It has also diversified into products such as jigsaw puzzles, postcards and illustrated card decks with trivia on topics such as African American art, ancient Egypt or famous lines from movies. The company continues to publish an eclectic range of calendars. Its 2007 catalog includes calendars focused on the late graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat,... (San Francisco Chronicle)
