Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Books
The library has two books on Jean-Michel Basquiat. You will find them at 759.13 in the non-fiction shelves
Life and Work
The website of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat describes the life and work of the artist and includes an essay, The Defining Years: Notes on Five Key Works by Fred Hoffman
Jean-Michel Basquiat / The Art Story
Describes the key ideas, most important art, biography, influences and connections, and legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The Ultimate Guide To Jean-Michel Basquiat
An A-Z guide to the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat published in Sleek magazine.
New Again: Jean-Michel Basquiat
An interview between art curator and critic Henry Geldzahler and Jean-Michel Basquiat that appeared in Interview magazine in 1983.
Jean Michel Basquiat Bio: Graffiti Artist Turned Sociopolitical Force
Biography: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Young Fun: Basquiat’s best work
An article by Peter Schjeldahl that was published in the New Yorker in 2005.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
A review of the film, The Radiant Child, by Stephen Holden in the New York Times in 2010.
'Radiant Child' A Rare Insight Into Basquiat's Mind
Listen to or read the transcript of an interview in 2010 between Audie Cornish and Tamra Davis, the director of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child.
Artworks
Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960-1988
The Whitney Museum of American Art has six works by Basquiat.
Hollywood Africans is one of them.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has two works by Basquiat in its collection.
Jean-Michel Basquiat / Art.Com
An extensive catalogue of the art works of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Features four artworks from an exhibition in 2005 at the Brooklyn Museum.
Jean‐Michel Basquiat – 136 artworks
The 136 artworks can be sorted by date, name, style, series and genre.
The Broad: Jean‐Michel Basquiat
Thirteen artworks by Jean Michel Basquiat held at The Broad art museum in Los Angeles.
Videos
State of the Art - Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1986)
Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."
"I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child."
"The more I paint the more I like everything."
"The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them."
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