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Jean Michel Basquiat

  1. rich flex
    Welcome to DrakelandThe rapper is reopening a defunct 1980s amusement park with installations from Keith Haring, Basquiat, and more.
    By Justin Curto
  2. theater review
    Two Kings, Not Much Pleasure: The CollaborationWarhol and Basquiat, painted by numbers.
    By Jackson McHenry
  3. party report
    Basquiat’s Art Career Took Off in Part Thanks to an Indie Film“All of the books that talk about Annina Nosei giving Jean-Michel his first studio, that wasn’t actually true.”
    By Justin Curto
  4. screenings
    Jean-Michel Basquiat Film Downtown 81 Is Returning to TheatersVulture will co-host the film’s New York premiere with Metrograph Pictures before a national rerelease.
    By Justin Curto
  5. art
    Study Warhol and Basquiat at a School Turned Gallery in Upstate New YorkNeither of these artists was known as a nature lover, of course.
    By Matthew Silver
  6. art
    What Does It Mean for Basquiat to Be Back in the East Village?Not that he’d recognize the place if he were still alive.
    By Phoebe Hoban
  7. A Guide to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s New YorkA glossary elaborating on many of the sources and references within Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
    By Mark Asch
  8. art
    The Bromance of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel BasquiatAn in-progress play explores the unplumbed depths of the two artists’ fraught relationship. Was it actually just romance?
    By Kyle Chayka
  9. art
    What It Was Like to Be Basquiat’s LoverThree scenes from Suzanne Mallouk’s life with the famous artist. 
    By Jennifer Clement
  10. legends
    Patti Astor, Eighties Art-Scene Icon And Wild Style Star, Still Has FunThe East Village art-scene pioneer and indie-movie icon takes Vulture on a walking tour through a lost world.
    By Mary Kaye Schilling
  11. politics
    Jeffrey Deitch Wants a Basquiat in the White HouseWhile Obama continues to put together his Cabinet in Washington, Deitch and his art-world colleagues are working to install one of their own at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
    By Andrew Goldstein