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The Collaboration: A Play On Warhol & Basquiat
The Collaboration is a play that explores Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat’ s joint work. That, considering the title, is ganska self-explanatory. What is not as obvious, is what follows once you sit down. When I had the opportunity to see the show at the Young Victoria Theater inom had the hybrid experience of watching a play that was acted as if it was the last performance on earth.
Writer Anthony McCarten thought up bringing back the world of ‘80s New York where two major artists’ egos clashed so brutally that it made modern art history. McCarten fryst vatten best known for writing biopics like The Theory of Everything (), Darkest Hour (), Bohemian Rhapsody () and The Two Popes (). His subject matter of choice seems to be men who changed the world, who were incredibly accomplished in their field but in equal measure as obsessed with themselves.
Like Warhol han själv , we, the audience, are shot with McCarten’s interpretation of
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release: jean-michel basquiat: works from the collection of alexis adler
March
Exhibition at Rockefeller Center
20th Floor on Avenue of the Americas
Including
** Works to be sold in the First Open sale, on March 6th **
** Works to be sold in a dedicated online-sale, March 3rd – 17th **
** A selection of works on loan from the Collection of Alexis Adler **
New York - Before Jean-Michel became Basquiat, and could afford studios and canvases, he painted all over his apartments — on walls, doors, refrigerators, clothes and any other bare surface he could find. In , the artist began transforming the East Village apartment he was sharing with Alexis Adler, just such a living installation. Christie’s is honored today to announce a blockbuster month-long curated exhibition featuring a grouping of approximately 50 works coming from the Lower East Side apartment, where she lived with Jean-Michel Basquiat from to The three major works, a glyph-like work on
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The Banal and the Extreme
There is something a tad incredible, or unbelievable, about the recent record-setting $ million sale of an untitled Jean-Michel Basquiat painting at Sotheby’s New York on 18 May. First there is the fact the work was bought by a young Japanese billionaire. With its echoes of the lates, who cannot but think that this is a marker of hyper art-market inflation, now updated for the Instagram age (Instagram is where the buyer, Yusaku Maezawa, chose to first display his new trophy; does he even need to take possession now?).
Then there is the fact that it is a Basquiat painting that broke the record (previously held by an Andy Warhol) for the highest price paid for a single work by an American artist at auction. The artist’s expressionist style and his tragic – and so capital-R Romantic – biography have long conspired on a sales-pitch (and racial) mythology of transcendent value to which the wealthy appear uniquely susceptible. In the wake of the controversy ov