News / Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Giants
Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

Through July 7, 2024
Brooklyn Museum, New York
www.brooklynmuseum.org

Giants, the first major exhibition of the Dean Collection, owned by musical icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys, showcases a focused selection from the couple’s world-class holdings and spotlights works by Black diasporic artists. Expansive in their collecting habits, the Deans, both born and raised in New York, champion a philosophy of “artists supporting artists.” “Giants” refers to the renown of legendary artists, the impact of canon-expanding contemporary figures, and some of the monumental works in the collection. Work by Derrick Adams, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Titus Kaphar, and Deana Lawson is included.

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The Culture
Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

June 28–September 29, 2024
Cincinnati Art Museum
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of hip-hop, this exhibition aims to capture the influence the genre has had on contemporary society through more than ninety works. Including painting, sculpture, photography, installations, video, and fashion, the show is organized around six themes—language, brand, adornment, tribute, ascension, and pose. Work by Derrick Adams, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Deana Lawson is included. This exhibition originated at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

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El eco de Picasso

October 2, 2023–March 30, 2024
Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain
museopicassomalaga.org

Organized as part of Picasso Celebration 1973–2023, a series of international exhibitions and events commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, The Echo of Picasso focuses on his influence on twentieth-century art. The exhibition places Picasso’s practice in dialogue with work by more than fifty artists, including Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Thomas Houseago, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Richard Prince, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Cy Twombly, Tom Wesselmann, and Franz West.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat
King Pleasure©

March 31, 2023–January 1, 2024
Grand LA, Los Angeles
kingpleasure.basquiat.com

Organized and curated by the family of Jean-Michel Basquiat, this exhibition of more than two hundred never-before-seen and rarely shown paintings, drawings, and artifacts tells Basquiat’s story from an intimate perspective, intertwining his artistic endeavors with his personal life, influences, and the times in which he lived. Immersive environments showcase Basquiat’s contributions to the history of art and his explorations of multifaceted cultural phenomena—including music, pop culture, and the Black experience—providing insight into his creative life and his singular voice. This exhibition has traveled from the Starrett-Lehigh Building, New York.

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The Inner Island

April 28–November 4, 2023
Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
www.fondationcarmignac.com

This exhibition, which features more than eighty works by fifty artists, presents visitors with new, unknown worlds floating outside familiar geographies and temporalities. The artists included break away from reality, bringing to life fictional, mental, and abstract islands. Work by Harold Ancart, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Simon Hantaï, Roy Lichtenstein, Albert Oehlen, and Christopher Wool is included.

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Basquiat × Warhol
À Quatre Mains

April 5–August 28, 2023
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr

From 1984 to 1985, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol produced around 160 canvases together, “four-handed.” This exhibition, whose subtitle translates to With Four Hands, brings together more than three hundred works and documents, including eighty jointly signed canvases as well as individual works by each artist. Also included are works by fellow members of the 1980s New York art scene.

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Basquiat
The Modena Paintings

June 11–August 27, 2023
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
www.fondationbeyeler.ch

In the summer of 1982, Jean-Michel Basquiat traveled to Modena, Italy, at the invitation of gallerist Emilio Mazzoli to produce new works for a solo exhibition. Within a few days, the twenty-one-year-old artist had painted eight large-format canvases, some of which are now among his most celebrated and valuable works. The planned exhibition ultimately did not take place, and the works were never shown together. More than forty years later, the full cycle of Modena Paintings, which are now held in collections in the United States, Asia, and Switzerland, are being displayed together at Fondation Beyeler for the very first time.

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The Culture
Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

April 5–July 16, 2023
Baltimore Museum of Art
artbma.org

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of hip-hop, this exhibition aims to capture the influence the genre has had on contemporary society through more than ninety works. Including painting, sculpture, photography, installations, video, and fashion, the show is organized around six themes—language, brand, adornment, tribute, ascension, and pose. Work by Derrick Adams, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Deana Lawson is included.

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Hors-Les-Murs Gribouillage–Scarabocchio
De Léonard de Vinci à Cy Twombly

February 19–April 30, 2023
Beaux-Arts de Paris
www.beauxartsparis.fr

This exhibition, whose title translates to Outside the Walls Scribbling and Doodling: From Leonardo da Vinci to Cy Twombly, includes nearly three hundred original works from the Renaissance to the present day and aims to shed light on these unconventional and often overlooked aspects of the practice of drawing. By exploring scribbling and doodling, from sketches scribbled on the backs of canvases to expansive doodles conceived as artworks in themselves, the show unveils how these experimental, transgressive, regressive, or liberating mark-making gestures, which appear to flout all laws and conventions, have punctuated the history of artistic creation. This exhibition traveled from the Villa Medici–Académie de France à Rome. Work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, and Cy Twombly is included.

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To Begin Again
Artists and Childhood

October 6, 2022–February 26, 2023
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
www.icaboston.org

To Begin Again investigates the influence of childhood and children on visual artists from the early twentieth century to today. Through painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and video by a group of forty international and intergenerational artists, this exhibition illustrates the diverse experiences of this phase of life and engages childhood as an intellectual query into language and learning. Work by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Duane Hanson is included.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat
King Pleasure©

April 9, 2022–January 1, 2023
Starrett-Lehigh Building, New York
kingpleasure.basquiat.com

Organized and curated by the family of Jean-Michel Basquiat, this exhibition of more than two hundred never-before-seen and rarely shown paintings, drawings, and artifacts tells Basquiat’s story from an intimate perspective, intertwining his artistic endeavors with his personal life, influences, and the times in which he lived. With an exhibition design by Adjaye Associates, immersive environments showcase Basquiat’s contributions to the history of art and his explorations of multifaceted cultural phenomena—including music, pop culture, and the Black experience—providing insight into his creative life and his singular voice.

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Take Care
Art and Medicine

April 8–July 17, 2022
Kunsthaus Zürich
www.kunsthaus.ch

This group exhibition aims to explore the timeless human preoccupation with health by retracing key moments in medical history from the nineteenth century to present day. More than three hundred works, including drawing, painting, sculpture, video, spatial installation, and performance, examine the productive interplay of sickness, pain, medicine, care, and healing. Work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Duane Hanson, and Damien Hirst is included.