The self-taught Basquiat was born in Brooklyn in 1960 to middle-class parents and began his career as a street artist painting walls he signed "Samo," as in "same old, same old." ...

In a 1985 interview with the New York Times, Basquiat outlined how much he disliked the Modena experience. “They set it up for me so I’d have to make eight paintings in a week,” he said.

Friends of Jean-Michel Basquiat are upset that the late artist's sisters have commercialized his legacy on products including a welcome mat. Ruggable If you want to buy a painting by Jean-Michel ...

Among the giveaways: “Basquiat never signed his paintings on the front. If he signed them at all, it was on the back of the painting,” art consultant Emily Santangelo told The Post.

Pierce O’Donnell (acting on behalf of a group of undisclosed art collectors) to analyze 27 potential Basquiat works referred to as the ‘Basquiat Venice Collection,'” Saggese stated. “Mr.

Basquiat, who lived and worked in New York City, found success in the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. The Orlando Museum of Art was the first institution to display the more than ...

In 1982, art dealer Emilio Mazzoli brought Jean-Michel Basquiat to Modena, Italy, where the street-artist-turned-mainstream-success would quickly produce a series of paintings for his second solo ...

The F.B.I.’s Art Crime Team is investigating the authenticity of 25 paintings that the Orlando Museum of Art says were created by Basquiat and are on exhibit there, according to a federal ...