A collection of two announcements, one press-release nd one Japanese promotional book for the Basquiat movie Downtown 81 (published circa 2001).

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 ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat, the lauded artist whose legacy has endured decades after his passing, now has a small stretch of downtown Manhattan named in his honor. On Tuesday, officials with the New York ...

At twenty-five years old, Michael Stewart was a young Black aspiring artist, deejay, and model, looking to make a name for himself in the vibrant downtown art scene of early 1980’s New York City. On ...

A stretch of Great Jones Street in downtown Manhattan has been officially named Jean-Michel Basquiat Way. The street includes the second-floor warehouse that Basquiat rented from Andy Warhol, where ...

Since the birth of his art career, Jean-Michel Basquiat has become one of the most influential figures of the neo-expressionism movement. He began as a member of the New York City graffiti duo SAMO ...

Today, the estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat and the New York Council comes together to rename a stretch of downtown Manhattan in honor of the famed artist, whose blazing career ended there in the 1980s.