Art Masters: Basquiat

Julian Voloj (Text by); Søren Glosimodt Mosdal (Illustrator)

The dazzling, provocative work of Jean-Michel Basquiat would come to define the vibrant New York art scene of the late '70s and early '80s. Punk, jazz, graffiti, hip-hop: his work drew heavily on the cultural trappings of Lower Manhattan, to which he fled (from Brooklyn) at the age of 15.Writer Julian V...