BASQUIAT

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) is considered on of the most important artists of the 20th century. His career spanned the late 1970s through the 1980s until his death in 1988. His paintings are typically covered with text and codes of all kinds: words, letters, numerals, pictograms, logos, map symbols, diagrams and more.  teNeues’s stationery line features beautiful products in prints by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Seeing Loud, Basquiat and Music is a beautifully illustrated exhibition catalog of rarely seen photographs and images that shed light on Basquiat as a musician, exploring how his art and music are related, and how they reflect on his identity as a Black artist in the United States, the downtown New York music scene, and contemporary culture.