Jean-Michel Basquait died on this day, twenty-seven years ago today (has it really been that long?)
Currently up at Brooklyn Museum a selection from Basquiat's Notebooks
From this past June on Hyperallergic - Megan Liberty - "An Intimate Reading of Jean-Michel Basquiat's poetry".
Here's the ever-perceptive Luc Sante on Basquiat's Notebooks - in the New York Times
Rene Ricard's groundbreaking December 1981 article (on Basquait and Keith Haring) in Artforum - "The Radiant Child" can be found here
"Five Fish Species", Basquait's hommage to his hero, William S Burroughs came up for auction at Sotherby's a couple of years ago, and can be seen in reproduction here:
[Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willam Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg - Photos by Victor Bockris]
And here I am reading my poem, Jean-Michel Basquiat, celebrating the achievement of this great artist, at the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate his studio. My reading starts at the 16:00 minute mark, but the whole vid is filled with potent oratory and poetry:
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Lol never heard of him and apparently no one else has either,
ReplyDeleteand no one will ever hear of you, ah
DeleteReally love his spontaneity and sincerity - a great artist and human being
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