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“Prince liked the band. He would come see us. He would mysteriously appear and disappear, which always made me mad – ‘Damn it!’” How Vernon Reid’s expressionist shredding juiced Living Colour and won fans in Prince and the Rolling Stones

From Vivid to Time’s Up to Stain, Vernon Reid’s radical solos and effects experimentalism set Living Colour apart from every other guitar band in the grunge era

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Nick Castellanos’s Basquiat Batting Gloves Might Be the Phillies’ Secret Weapon

The Phillies outfielder sports custom-made batting gloves featuring artwork of the late American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, and they’ve been put to good use this postseason.

Sports Illustrated

Aboudia blindsides market experts as bestselling artist of 2022

Artist from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, sold 75 artworks in auction, topping Damien Hirst’s 73

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Florida art museum sues former director over forged Basquiat paintings scheme

A central Florida art museum that was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has sued its former executive director and others, claiming they were part of a scheme to profit from the sale of the fake artwork

The Independent UK

Florida museum chief tried to make millions from exhibition of fake Basquiat art, lawsuit claims

Aaron De Groft hoped to pocket commissions from auction of the works at show he arranged that was revealed to be a scam

The Guardian - US

Sex toys, rugs and Barbie dolls: does posthumous use of artists’ work risk cheapening their legacies?

Brands love to use the work of late, great artists just as much as late, great artists’ estates like to cash in. But that hasn’t stopped a slew of Succession-size squabbles

The Guardian - UK

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Why a Banksy exhibition in Glasgow makes perfect sense

A new solo exhibition by Banksy, the UK’s most famous anonymous artist, has opened at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow – his first in 14 years.

The Conversation

Banksy's exhibition in Glasgow is sharply political and laugh-out-loud funny

WHO says crime doesn’t pay? In his quarter-century career as a graffiti artist, Banksy – whose first solo show in 14 years opened at the Gallery…

The National (Scotland)

‘There were no rules down here’: New York resurrects popular skate park

The Brooklyn Banks, known for being a ‘melting pot’ of skaters, bikers and artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, were closed off over a decade ago – until now

The Guardian - US

New Glasgow pub inspired by iconic New York artist set to open doors

Fanatics of renowned New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat will be jumping for joy as a bar opening up on Kent Road will be dedicated to the iconic man and his work.

Glasgow Live

Halim Flowers, from US prison cell to Paris art show

Wrongfully incarcerated as a teenager, Halim Flowers, now 42, fought for his release, which as finally granted in 2019. He has now found new life as an artist. An exhibition of his paintings has just opened in Paris.

Radio France Internationale

US artist went from prison cell to Paris show

PARIS: Aged 16, Halim Flowers was arrested in the United States, tried as an adult then jailed for murder. Now aged 42, he is a prolific artist, poet and writer exhibiting in Paris.

Bangkok Post

The US artist who went from prison cell to Paris show

Paris (AFP) - Aged 16, Halim Flowers was arrested in the United States, tried as an adult then jailed for murder.Now aged 42, he is a prolific artist, poet and writer exhibiting in Paris.

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Evening Standard

London street artist Pegasus paints Coronation tribute in Highbury and Islington

The artist drew on the Sex Pistols, Basquiat and Eighties and Nineties pop art for inspiration

Bangkok Post

Uniqlo launches new tees for peace

Last June, Uniqlo launched its Peace For All project involving well-known figures each of whom designed a UT T-shirt that embodies their individual call for peace.

Radio France Internationale

Two Basquiat exhibitions in Paris shine light on art superstar

American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat is the subject of two major exhibitions in Paris this spring, one focusing on music, the other on his collaboration with Andy Warhol.

The Guardian - US

Man admits to Basquiat forgery scheme which saw fakes displayed in museum

Michael Barzman sold paintings created in ‘maximum of 30 minutes’ by accomplice, justice department says

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Los Angeles Times

LA auctioneer admits guilt in Basquiat forged-art scam

On the heels of a new Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit opening in Los Angeles — one that purports to get to the truth of who the late artist really was — news regarding Basquiat forgeries, shown in a different exhibition in 2022 and unrelated to the Basquiat estate, has come to…

WEKU

A California man pleads guilty to selling dozens of fake Basquiat paintings

A former auctioneer has pleaded guilty to selling fake Jean Michel-Basquiat paintings, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Man agrees to plead guilty in Basquiat artwork fraud scheme

A former Los Angeles auctioneer has agreed to plead guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

AFP

Basquiat-Warhol: a rare artistic duo, reunited in Paris

Paris (AFP) - There are vanishingly few great collaborations in the annals of fine art.For a brief moment in the 1980s, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat showed the world how it was done.

Los Angeles Times

A trove of Basquiat's little-seen work arrives in LA — a city pivotal to his artistic life

LOS ANGELES — In the fall of 1982, Jean-Michel Basquiat was living at art dealer Larry Gagosian's Venice Beach home, making swarms of new paintings in his private wing of the house. Gagosian had been "electrified" by the 21-year-old artist's work at New York's Annina Nosei Gallery about a year…

The Guardian - UK

Stretching his 15 minutes of fame: why Andy Warhol still has the power to inspire

The array of new exhibitions, plays and books shows the maverick artist has struck a chord with the digital generation

The Guardian - UK

Contort yourself! The mutant disco mayhem of New York’s Ze Records

Disgusted with Britain’s ‘cruel’ aristocracy, Michael Zilkha left to champion a generation of party-starting punk-funk bands. As he returns as a book publisher, he remembers that wild scene

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