Jean-Michel basquiat Brooklyn Museum show & spring gala:

[lady grey]

There's a fabulous Basquiat show at Brooklyn museum just opened [reviews & articles soon] but since I just got word of the Museum's Spring gala party [sure to be chock full of artists, fashionistas, musicians, socialites & others] I thought some here might find this party of note:

In conjunction with the Jean Michel Basquiat Show

The Annual Brooklyn Museum of Art Ball
in the Brooklyn Museum of Art's Beau Arts Hall

Thursday, April 21st 2005
From 8pm until Midnight

Special Performance by Kid Creole & The Coconuts (TBC)

Music by DJ Raven Fox

It's an outstanding retrospective of one of the 80s greatest artists & the Brooklyn Museum is always worthy of support & patronage.

 

[lady grey]

more on this great artist & important museum show-

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhib.../2005/basquiat/

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) was born and raised in Brooklyn, the son of a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican–American mother. At an early age, he showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum when he was six. Basquiat first gained notoriety as a teenage graffiti poet and musician. By 1981, at the age of twenty, he had turned from spraying graffiti on the walls of buildings in Lower Manhattan to selling paintings in SoHo galleries, rapidly becoming one of the most accomplished artists of his generation. Astute collectors began buying his art, and his gallery shows sold out. Critics noted the originality of his work, its emotional depth, unique iconography, and formal strengths in color, composition, and drawing. By 1985, he was featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine as the epitome of the hot, young artist in a booming market. Tragically, Basquiat began using heroin and died of a drug overdose when he was just twenty-seven years old.

This exhibition gathers together more than one hundred of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s finest works, including many that have never been shown in the United States. It is organized chronologically, with special sections highlighting Basquiat’s interest in music, language, and Afro-Caribbean imagery, along with his use of techniques such as collage and silkscreen.

The exhibition seeks to demonstrate not only that Basquiat was a key figure in the 1980s, but also that his artistic accomplishments have significance for twentieth-century art as a whole. Basquiat was the last major painter in an idiom that had begun decades earlier in Europe with the imitation of African art by modern artists such as Picasso and Matisse. Inspired by his own heritage, Basquiat both contributed to and transcended the African-influenced modernist idiom.

 

[Jadee]

I Basquiat .
How I wish I were in america!

 

[LolitaLuxe]

go see

it is coming to los angeles as well, i cannot wait

BASQUIAT

07.17.05 - 10.10.05

This retrospective exhibition includes approximately 125 works of art highlighting the career of Brooklyn-based artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Rising to fame in the 1980s, Basquiat used street imagery in his work, such as large city buildings, police cars, skeletal figures, and masklike faces. Basquiat later ventured into more fragmented imagery of people and their dwellings, creating large, multi-paneled works that incorporate text and collage. Before his death in 1988, Basquiat's work expanded to comprise numerous styles, uniting symbols and techniques of graffiti art, abstract expressionism, and the sociopolitical art of the 1970s. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art by Marc Mayer, deputy director for art, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Kellie Jones, assistant professor of the history of art and African American studies, Yale University; Fred Hoffman, MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow; and internationally recognized curator and writer Franklin Sirmans.

Basquiat is organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The national tour of Basquiat is sponsored by JPMorgan Chase. Additional generous support has been provided by Fernwood Art Foundation.

MOCA's presentation is supported by the Ahmanson Foundation through the Ahmanson Curatorial Fellowship.

Major support at MOCA is provided by the Broad Art Foundation.

Generous additional support is provided by Western Interiors and Design magazine; the Pasadena Art Alliance; and Mandy and Clifford J. Einstein.

In-kind support is provided by Angeleno magazine and Quiksilver.

 

[softgrey]

Basquiat in Brooklyn

March 11–June 5 @ the Brooklyn Museum...http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/2005/basquiat/
Related Events
Apr 2, 6*p.m.: Curator Talk, Basquiat
Apr 9, 3*p.m.–5*p.m.: Music and Hands-on Art, "Afternoon Groove"
Apr 17, 4*p.m.–6*p.m.: Dance Forum, "Raw Vision"



Jean-Michel Basquiat in his studio, 1985. Photograph © Lizzie Himmel

 

[softgrey]

some featured works...

 

[faust]

Ooooh! Softie, you should've put that into the "tFS Cultural Calendar" to keep it going! It died too quick

 

[purechris]

Basquiat!

thx soft I will definitely put this show on my things to do list

 

[travolta]

did you ever see that movie with david bowie as warhol?? it was pretty good

 

[Estella*]

Basquiat!

yes

 

[LolitaLuxe]

its coming to los angeles at MOCA ( grand avenue ) as well.....

it was also mentioned here

http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23262

 

[softgrey]

thanks lo...you could have just merged them.......i wouldn't have minded...
sorry for double posting...


fashion daily seems like a more appropriate place anyway...don't know why i didn't think of that...faust...maybe we should move your cultural thread into fashion daily so more people might see it?...

yes travolta...the movie was good...

 

[Raven Fox]

DJ Raven Fox here.

Jean Michel was a very good friend of mine way back then / he was introduced to me by another close (and late) Keith Haring. Having been immersed in the downtown art scene of NYC - it is with great pride and honor to have been chosen to spin for the Brooklyn Museums Annual Gala in conjunction with "SAMOs" retrospective.

I hope that any of you in NYC are able to make it to the ball or see the exhibit. Keep in touch with me here or through my website >> http://www.ravenfox.net

Raven

Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring

 

[TokyoVogue]

His energy in his work was beautiful
he was one of the inspirations to the new beautiful losers and their art

 

[lady grey]

excellent jerry saltz JMB essay on artnet-

http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/jsaltz/saltz4-19-05.asp

 

[Angyl]

ever since i saw that movie i've been in love with him....