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Sea of Desire

June 2–November 4, 2018
Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
www.fondationcarmignac.com

The phrase “Sea of Desire” on a large-scale painting by Ed Ruscha welcomes visitors to this exhibition, which channels a spirit of rebellion and change. Sea of Desire confronts the viewer with compelling artworks that imply revolution, freedom, and a quest for beauty. Work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol is included.

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Boom for Real

February 16–May 27, 2018
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
www.schirn.de

Drawing from international museums and private collections, this exhibition brings together more than one hundred works, many never before seen in Germany, including a partial reconstruction of the first body of work that Basquiat exhibited at Diego Cortez’s watershed group show New York/New Wave at PS1 in New York in 1981. This exhibition has traveled from the Barbican Center in London.

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Boom for Real

September 21, 2017–January 28, 2018
Barbican Centre, London
www.barbican.org.uk

Drawing from international museums and private collections, this exhibition brings together more than one hundred works, many never before seen in England, including a partial reconstruction of the first body of work that Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibited at Diego Cortez’s watershed group show New York/New Wave at PS1 in New York in 1981.

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Animal Farm

May 14–October 1, 2017
Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut
brantfoundation.org

Animal Farm is a group exhibition curated by artist and musician Sadie Laska. A selection of works sketch a story that slides from figurative iconography to totemic abstraction, charting a world in churn; in print, in space, and on canvas. The show includes work by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Joe Bradley.

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Basquiat before Basquiat
East 12th Street, 1979–1980

February 11–May 14, 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
mcadenver.org

With a focus on works made by Jean-Michel Basquiat during the year he lived with Alexis Adler in a small apartment in the East Village, this exhibition provides rare insight into the artistic life of Basquiat before he was recognized as a prominent painter in the early 1980s. Spanning four galleries on the first floor of the museum, the exhibition will present New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s through the prism of Basquiat’s art and provide a window into that time and place.

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The Unknown Notebooks

January 22–April 23, 2017
Cleveland Museum of Art
www.clevelandart.org

Through April 23, 2017

www.clevelandart.org

Eight notebooks created by Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1980 and 1987, which have never before been presented to the public, are the heart of this exhibition. On view are 160 unbound notebook pages filled with the artist’s handwritten texts and sketches, along with thirty related paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works drawn from private collections and the artist’s estate.

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Human Interest
Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

April 2, 2016–April 2, 2017
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
whitney.org

Human Interest offers new perspectives on one of art’s oldest genres. Drawn entirely from the museum’s holdings, the more than two hundred works in the exhibition show changing approaches to portraiture from the early 1900s until today. Bringing iconic works together with lesser-known examples and recent acquisitions in a range of mediums, the exhibition unfolds in eleven thematic sections. Work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Roe Ethridge, Duane Hanson, Mike Kelley, Sally Mann, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Rudolf Stingel, Andy Warhol, and Jonas Wood is included.