Today is Jean-Michel Basquiat's birthday. Had he not died of a heroin overdose in 1988 he would be 60 years old. For someone whose painting career only lasted eight years at most and an additional three as a street artist, more
John Wyver writes: welcome to this week's listing of links to articles and a handful of videos that have engaged my attention over the past week. Stay safe and well. • The extraordinary Sir Simon McDonald “clarification” – a guided tour: more
For The New York Times, Martha Schwendener has written a fascinating response to the inaugural show at the new Brant Foundation in the East Village (until 15 May) of some 70 works by Jean-Michel Basquiat. 'Jean-Michel Basquiat' at more
Links to articles and videos that have caught my eye in the past week or more - thanks, as always, to those on Twitter and elsewhere that drew my attention to them. • The fashion photography of Marilyn Stafford - more
Our colleague TOM ALLEN reflects on postmodernism and history, on the ideas of Frederic Jameson and Karl Marx, and on the art of Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was recently re-reading the first chapter of Frederic Jameson's more
To coincide with the opening in September of the first large-scale exhibition at London's Barbican Gallery of iconic American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, we are pleased to announce the release of a DVD documentary, Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Life, directed by more
You have just one week to catch the truly remarkable Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, which closes on 14 December. In recognition of this we have posted on our YouTube channel a more
No doubt about the key cultural event of the week: the opening of the completed re-hang of 500 years of British art at Tate Britain. Tomorrow's post will be 10 things I already love there - more
Another post from our archives, this time from 8 March 2011, when I was about to teach a very similar class to the one that I will give at the Royal College of Art tomorrow. I am delighted to be contributing more