Link: https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/basquiats-defacement-the-untold-story
Jean Michel Basquiat 在古根海姆的特展。
东西不是很多，但排队的人沿着古根海姆的螺旋走道排了两层。
Basquiat的东西且不说符号内容，色彩上形式上，让人就算不关注绘画的内容也觉得很有趣，生动。
Fun Fact: He dated Madonna when she is no one. Last one is from Keith Haring in memory of a young artist being killed by the police.
This exhibition took as its starting point the painting The Death of Michael Stewart, informally known as Defacement, created by Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) in 1983. The work commemorates the fate of the young, Black artist Michael Stewart at the hands of New York City Transit Police after allegedly tagging a wall in an East Village subway station. Originally painted on the wall of Keith Haring’s studio within a week of Stewart’s death, Basquiat’s painting was a deeply personal lamentation that has rarely been exhibited in a public context. With The Death of Michael Stewart as its centerpiece, this exhibition examined Basquiat’s exploration of Black identity, his protest against police brutality, and his attempts to craft a singular aesthetic language of empowerment. Several of the works by Basquiat presented in this exhibition illustrated his sustained engagement with the subject of state authority in the paintings depicting police figures. Other works explored his canonization of historical Black figures, especially the jazz legend Charlie Parker, who was perhaps Basquiat’s favorite hero to depict on canvas. An early self-portrait, created the same year as The Death of Michael Stewart, suggests Basquiat’s keen self-awareness as a Black artist navigating a predominantly white and often hostile art world.