In Time Decorated, a new three-part online documentary video series from the Broad Museum centered on the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, producer Terrace Martin, Afro-Punk founder James Spooner, and hip ...

Young, beautiful and immensely talented, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s meteoric rise from hungry outsider to star of New York’s ’80s art scene was a wild ride as he staked his claim to art world fame. But ...

The inextricable link between the visual and the aural in Basquiat’s work is the subject of an exhibition opening this month at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music is the ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a music fanatic and wannabe drummer who before he hit superstardom as a visual artist often needed cash—fast. Sometimes the two worlds collided. Once was in 1981 when the ...

Jay-Z is a man of exquisite taste across the board. From the brand of adult beverage he prefers, the songs he chooses to appear on, or who he gives a recommendation to, the “God Did” rap icon has ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat left behind enough artwork before his untimely death in 1988 to be remembered forever as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century. Uniqlo emblazons T-shirts with his most ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat, the late Neo-Expressionist, is best known for his colorful and raw canvases. But the artist also played a hand in the release of an iconic ’80s hip hop song, having produced and ...

An exhibition opening in Montreal and later in Paris shows how Jean-Michel Basquiat was inspired by New York City’s vibrant music and club scene. By Laura van Straaten To fully appreciate Jean-Michel ...

When Michael Holman moved from San Francisco to New York City in 1978, he planned to become a banker on Wall Street before being submerged in the downtown art and emerging hip-hop scene. A year later, ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work will make headlines again during the marquee spring auctions in New York as a second major painting by the late artist comes to market. Now’s the Time, 1985, Basquiat’s ode ...