PreviewExhibitions
From the streets to the studio: show explores how Basquiat, graffiti and hip-hop culture stormed the art world in the 1980s
Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston includes works by Rammellzee, Keith Haring, Kool Koor and Lady Pink
NewsArt crime
California man sentenced to five years in prison for $6m international art fraud scheme
Philip Righter pleaded guilty to selling works fraudulently attributed to Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, among others
BlogDiary
Eight-year-old artist creates works in the style of Banksy and Basquiat to bolster coronavirus efforts
AnalysisArt's Most Popular 2020
Here are 2019's most visited contemporary art exhibitions
Jean-Michel Basquiat brought in big crowds in Paris—but who beat him to claim the top spot?
PreviewExhibitions
Revellers and rivals: Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat reunited for major show
First museum survey exploring both artists together to open at the National Gallery of Victoria
NewsCommercial galleries
Warhol and Basquiat's fruitful friendship goes on show at Jack Shainman gallery
Exhibition in upstate New York includes over 100 works, from polaroids to film, some of which are for sale
NewsJean-Michel Basquiat
How a protest poster by David Wojnarowicz may have inspired Basquiat's Defacement
Artist's 1983 depiction of an infamous case of police brutality goes on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in June
PreviewArt market
Object Lessons: from a polaroid of Basquiat to a Ming dynasty bodhisattvas
Our pick from this week's fairs and auctions
BlogIn the frame
Fly me to the moon? Elon Musk plans to launch Japanese billionaire collector Yusaku Maezawa and eight artists into space
NewsArt Basel 2018
Controversial collection of early Basquiat drawings on show in Basel
Works were created by the artist when he was sleeping on a friend’s couch in Manhattan
NewsLaw
Daughter sues her father over Jean-Michel Basquiat painting
Belinda Neumann-Donnelly claims the work could have made an extra $15m if Hubert Neumann had not tried to block its sale
BlogIn the frame
Hirst shark—and Venice shipwreck piece—installed in Las Vegas casino
NewsArt market
Kerry James Marshall sets $21m record for a living African American artist at Sotheby's sale
Rapper P. Diddy identified as buyer of the Chicago-based painter's Past Times
NewsArt market
Judge halts suit filed by collector seeking to block sale of Basquiat at Sotheby's
The painting, estimated to bring $30m, is a key lot in the auction house's upcoming evening sale in New York
NewsFrieze New York
Basquiat’s $20m work takes centre stage in Phillips sale
Critic and curators gather to pay tribute to late artist as 1984 painting comes to market for first time
NewsArt market
Yusaku Maezawa awarded the Order of Arts and Letters by French government
Japanese collector was catapulted into the limelight when he spent $110m on a Basquiat, which is currently on 'world tour'
BlogLinda on the loose
Basquiat heads back to his Brooklyn home
NewsExhibitions
Battle for Basquiat: exhibition opens to huge crowds in São Paulo after prevailing in tussle between museums
Two major shows had been planned but only Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil's is taking place after Masp cancelled
NewsExhibitions
Basquiat: Boom for Real is most popular show in Barbican’s history
More than 7,000 visitors attended over the closing weekend in London, with overall figures expected to reach more than 215,000
ReviewExhibitions
Does Basquiat's work still burn with youthful energy or has it become a fossil of 1980s New York?
Kenneth Baker on the US artist's survey at the Barbican, which travels to Germany next month
NewsExhibitions
Brooklyn Museum first to show Yusaku Maezawa’s $110m Basquiat
Japanese billionaire has sent his prized 1982 skull painting on “world tour” after buying work at Sotheby’s last year
NewsArt market
Beyond Leonardo: the artists who led the auctions in 2017
We survey the top five results in key markets, from Old Masters to Post-war and contemporary
NewsExhibitions
Basquiat blockbuster and Schiele show lined up for Fondation Louis Vuitton next autumn
Spring show at Bernard Arnault’s Paris institution includes unseen collection works by artists such as Murakami and Matisse
AnalysisThe Year In Review
From VR masterpieces to PR disasters: 2017's ups and downs
The Art Newspaper team assesses the art world's fortunes in a turbulent year
NewsFairs
Basquiat Boom reaches Miami Beach
Documentary about artist’s life screens at Art Basel in Miami Beach
NewsFrieze 2017
Basquiat boom spreads with London show
Artist’s many influences explored in scholarly exhibition comprising more than 100 pieces at the Barbican
FeatureFrieze 2017
The market boom for Basquiat
A year after his death, MoMA turned down an offer of the artist’s work. Today, the appetite for his paintings has never been greater
NewsJean-Michel Basquiat
What Basquiat absorbed from the New York School
Show at London's Barbican is first major survey on the artist since 1996
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Discover Basquiat’s art—and his bedtime reading— at Prospect 3
During his lifetime, Jean-Michel Basquiat (right) kept a copy of the book Flash of the Spirit—considered to be one of the seminal works on Afro-Atlantic art and thinking—on his bedside table.
ArchiveObituaries
Obituary: Rene Ricard
The artist, critic and bon vivant was credited with propelling Jean-Michel Basquiat to fame
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Dealers circle Basquiat’s estate
There are “all kinds of rumours swirling” around the estate of the graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Basquiat in love and in the nude: Newly revealed photographs of the artist art to go on display
A former girlfriend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is to exhibit works from her personal archive, including a series of black-and-white nude portraits of the artist, who died in 1988
ArchiveFrieze
Warhol-Basquiat goes begging at Phillips
Phillips’s chief executive says Frieze might have distracted potential buyers
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Basquiat leaps into different league: A market analysis
Record price for early work sends late graffiti artist into “super blue-chip” territory as demand—and prices—soar
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Williamsburg street art is Phil Frost, not Basquiat
As the appreciation of street art rises (as do its prices), attribution becomes critical
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
A new film on Jean-Michel Basquiat ticks all the boxes
Archive interviews? Check. Cool soundtrack? Famous faces? Boost to the market? Check, check and check
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Basquiat: his market and his legacy
Beyeler exhibition aims to place the artist, who died at 27, high in the canon
ArchiveAuthentication
Authentication committee refused to give an opinion on my Basquiat, says collector
Complaint says work could lose $3m in value as a result
ArchiveCrime
Found: paintings from the collection of Brazilian money launderer
A Léger and a Basquiat belonging to Edemar Cid Ferreira have been identified
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Christie’s hits back over disputed Basquiat
Auction house seeks dismissal of lawsuit
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Books: Basquiat from street artist to superstar
Banksy’s rise from street artist to gallery star, embraced by the commercial art world, is by no means unique
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Martin Summers reveals his Jean-Michel Basquiat collection
Treasures from behind the secret door
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
What's on in Germany: Basquiat and Warhol get personal in Cologne
Jablonka is running concurrent shows on two giants of the 20th century
ArchiveExhibitions
Basquiat and Warhol exhibit concurrently in Cologne
Jablonka, Cologne
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat continues upward trajectory in sales and at auction
New paintings at Hamiltons for those who have so far missed out
ArchiveAndy Warhol
Andy Warhol in Los Angeles
A number of small shows devoted to the artist have opened across the city
ArchiveExhibitions
Warhol-Basquiat-Clemente collaborations come to Madrid
Centro de Arte Reina Sofía plays host to three big names on one canvas
ArchiveAndy Warhol
Celebrity frisson: new Andy Warhol photographs
Photographs by the wigged Sphinx of Manhattan are published by his old dealer
ArchiveExhibitions
What's on in London: Gwen John times two, with lots of unseen work
Fontana moves from Hayward exhibition to commercial gallery, Basquiat’s drawings come to the City and the centenary of the charming Ardizzone is celebrated
ArchiveExhibitions
Construction-mania: Our choice of New York contemporary galleries
And a group of exhibitions, about Duchamp, Balthus and Basquiat, coincides with new art book releases this autumn
ArchiveArt market
Christie's Contemporary auction report: Basquiat as a pricing phenomenon
His record price may bolster the market, but not all artists surpassed expectations
ArchiveSao Paulo biennial
Sao Paolo XXIII Biennale: A Biennale in search of magicians, new, old and semi-old
Bringing together Picasso and Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois and Basquiat, Lam and the new Latin Americans, Jean-Hubert Martin and Achille Bonito Oliva
ArchiveFilms
Art on Screen from “Lust for Life” to “I Shot Andy Warhol”
David D’Arcy reviews the rash of films about art and artists now being made in the US
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
The Serpentine asks how good was Jean-Michel Basquiat, really?
The artist's complicated oeuvre makes it hard to judge if some works are forged - or if instead he was just having an off day
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Whitney compares Basquiat to Leonardo da Vinci in new retrospective
Music Television and Madonna sponsor her late lover
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
First American Basquiat retrospective to be held at the Whitney
Whitney director, David Ross, gambles on his political correctness
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Basquiat’s dealer disappears pursued by creditors
Baghoomian vanishes while Basquiat paintings remain missing
ArchiveBelgium
What's on in Belgium: Parmiggiani, Basquiat, and artists at home
A busy month for Brussels
ArchiveFilms
Will the upcoming Warhol biopic be another casualty of art films' tendency to alienate audiences?
The artist's life story will soon be a minor motion picture, but cinema-goers could be disenchanted with such dramatisations