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.

Visitors look at paintings by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Orlando Museum of Art, Wednesday, June 1, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. On Friday, June 24, 2022, the FBI raided the art museum and seized ...

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 ...

When Basquiat Painted and Partied In L.A. (and Took Madonna to the Fox Commissary) A new show at Gagosian Beverly Hills showcases the paintings that the artist made in Los Angeles during the early ...

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.

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 ...

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 a recreation of the artist’s painting studio at 57 Great Jones Street, you see the VHS tapes, tattered paperbacks, wine glasses and records and record player Basquiat kept spinning while he ...

On Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, the central Florida art museum which was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings filed suit against its ...