Exhibitions: Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks
Tamra Davis (American, b. 1962). Still from A Conversation with Basquiat, 2006. 23 min., 22 sec. © Tamra Davis. Courtesy of the artist. By permission of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, all rights reserved. Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum
April 3–August 23, 2015
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th Floor
Brooklyn-born artist Jean-Michel Basquiat filled numerous notebooks with poetry fragments, wordplay, sketches, and personal observations ranging from street life and popular culture to themes of race, class, and world history. The first major exhibition of the artist's notebooks, Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks features 160 pages of these rarely seen documents, along with related works on paper and large-scale paintings.
A self-taught artist with encyclopedic and cross-cultural interests, Basquiat was influenced by comics, advertising, children's sketches, Pop art, hip-hop, politics, and everyday life. Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks emphasizes the distinct interplay of text and images in Basquiat’s art, providing unprecedented insight into the importance of writing in the artist’s process. The notebook pages on display contain early renderings of iconic imagery—tepees, crowns, skeleton-like figures, and grimacing faces—that also appear throughout his large-scale works, as well as an early drawing related to his series of works titled Famous Negro Athletes.
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and is curated by Dieter Buchhart, guest curator, with Tricia Laughlin Bloom, former Associate Curator of Exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
A self-taught artist with encyclopedic and cross-cultural interests, Basquiat was influenced by comics, advertising, children's sketches, Pop art, hip-hop, politics, and everyday life. Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks emphasizes the distinct interplay of text and images in Basquiat’s art, providing unprecedented insight into the importance of writing in the artist’s process. The notebook pages on display contain early renderings of iconic imagery—tepees, crowns, skeleton-like figures, and grimacing faces—that also appear throughout his large-scale works, as well as an early drawing related to his series of works titled Famous Negro Athletes.
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and is curated by Dieter Buchhart, guest curator, with Tricia Laughlin Bloom, former Associate Curator of Exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Support for this exhibition is provided by the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation and Christie's.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960–1988). Untitled (Ter Borch), circa 1987–88. Acrylic and oilstick on canvas, 49½ x 39½ in. (125.7 x 100.3 cm). Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Copyright © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, all rights reserved. Licensed by Artestar, New York
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960–1988). Untitled Notebook (front cover), 1980–81. Mixed media on board, 95⁄8 x 75⁄8 x ¼ in. (24.4 x 19.4 x .6 cm). Collection of Larry Warsh. Copyright © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, all rights reserved. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo: Sarah DeSantis, Brooklyn Museum
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960–1988). Untitled, 1986. Acrylic, collage, and oilstick on paper on canvas, 941⁄8 x 1362⁄5 in. (239 x 346.5 cm). Collection of Larry Warsh. Copyright © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, all rights reserved. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo: Gavin Ashworth, Brooklyn Museum
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960–1988). Untitled, 1982–83. Oilstick, colored pencil, crayon, and gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 96 x 126 in. (243.8 x 320 cm). Collection of Fred Hoffman. Copyright © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, all rights reserved. Licensed by Artestar, New York
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Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
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Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
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Wednesday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Thursday: 11 a.m.–10 p.m.
Friday–Sunday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
--Thursday: 11 a.m.–10 p.m.
Friday–Sunday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Link: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat_notebooks/#
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