JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT RETROSPECTIVE From: Black Renaissance | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Troupe, Margaret Porter | Copyright Institute of African American Affairs Spring 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

I was lucky enough to have my canvas suits dry-cleaned before the riots.

-Jean-Michel Basquiat

Timing is everything.

-Miles Davis

Jean-Michel Basquiat remains today one of the brightest stars ever to traverse the art world universe. His unparalleled meteoric rise to fame birthed in the late 1970's, when he - as SAMO - spray painted cryptic messages on walls all around SOHO and captured the imagination of the New York art community. In a brilliant flash during the d...

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