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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Through June 5
TO HELLAND BACK
Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged rough but ready, not fully formed but fully loaded
Call it a seventh sense. Certain artists intuit that they're going to die young, so they produce large bodies of work in condensed periods of time. They catch fire quickly, blaze brightly, then are gone. Neither Eva Hesse nor Robert Smithson, Gordon Matta-Clark nor Keith Raring lived pa...
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Catch a shooting star
The Independent - London
; Half Haitian, half Puerto Rican, a fluent speaker of Caribbean Spanish, and a jazz expert with a library of more than 3,000 records, Jean- Michel Basquiat epitomised the multilingual power and multifarious stimuli of New York. With a potent bland of cheek, chutzpah and contrariness, Basquiat fused
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The making of a killing in the art world
The Boston Globe
; ... and used to buy heroin and cocaine. Basquiat died of a drug overdose in 1988 at 27, but by that time his art was already old news. His supernova had burned out. In her biography of Basquiat, New York Times columnist Phoebe Hoban details the feeding frenzy ...
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American Graffiti
New York
; American Graffiti "Basquiat" is a bit too reverent, but it catches the messy energy of the artist in his moment. BASQUIAT BROOKLYN MUSEUMTHROUGH JUNE 5. JEAN-MICHEL BASQUiAT is one of art's shooting stars, a painter who developed a flashy early style and then flamed out, dying in 1988 of a drug
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`Basquiat': Spray-Painted Valentine
The Washington Post
; "BASQUIAT" IS a sweet dream of a biography. The movie, about painter-artist Jean-Michel Basquiat may be small in scope, factually rearranged and even coy about his life. You could blink, for instance, and miss the fact that Basquiat (played with extraordinary grace by Jeffrey Wright) was a
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: a life made for movies.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ... overdose in 1988 at age 27. Though Schnabel is no longer on the cutting edge of a fickle and fast-moving art world, he's in the news again for directing the film ``Basquiat.'' He tells the story of Basquiat's brief, bold career in flashy strokes. It's a portrait ...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Exhibit probes enigmatic artist
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; HOUSTON -- No doubt about it, Jean-Michel Basquiat would have loved all the attention that the major touring exhibit now at the Museum of Fine Arts here has generated. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Basquiat" made headlines on the East Coast last spring; then it landed in Los Angeles,
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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DESPITE LONG ODDS, 'BASQUIAT' SUCCEEDS.(AT HOME)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Byline: Paula S. Bernstein, Newhouse News Service Films about artists tend to be bad, broad-stroked melodramas that face the inevitable dilemma: How do you depict an artist ...
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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
The Village Voice
; JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Through June 5 TO HELLAND BACK Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged rough but ready, not fully formed but fully loaded Call it a seventh sense. Certain artists intuit that they're going to die young, so they produce large bodies of work in condensed
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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ODE TO YOUNG ARTIST SPARES NO ONE.(Books)(Review)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Mary Voelz Chandler Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art By Phoebe Hoban. Viking, 385 pages, $29.95. Talk about a punishing read: Phoebe Hoban's new biography of the late painter Jean-Michel Basquiat is hard to take on just about every level. Its title - A Quick Killing in Art - implicates
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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(movie review)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Jean-Michel Basquiat was to the New York gallery scene what Kurt Cobain was to Seattle rock - a vibrant new talent cut down too young. Basquiat (pronounced BAHS-kee-ah) went from unknown to superstar to dead in record time. His friend, the painter Julian Schnabel, gives us a dazzling portrait of
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