In the 1970s, Basquiat gained attention as a graffiti artist for his scrawled phrases and pictograms of crowns and copyright signs. By 1981, he had abandoned the walls of buildings for canvas.
The legacy of late American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who rewrote underground art culture in the 1980s with words, images and collages, remains as strong and inspiring as ever today.
The transition from graffiti to gallery is a controversial one but three young men from Boyle Heights argue the fine line between the two is just spray can away. "Three little kids that grew up here ...
Image Courtesy of Dean Robbins By Dean Robbins If there is one museum in DC that you need to visit right now, it is the Hirshhorn. Beyond the fantastic Revolutions exhibition that broadly surveys the ...