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Media type:
Book;
Still Image;
Exhibition Catalogue
Title:
Basquiat's Defacement
:
the untold story
Other titles:
Colophon: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Basquiat's "Defacement": he Untold Story. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 21-November 6, 2019."
Description:
Defacement: moment, history, and memory / Chaédria LaBouvier -- The man nobody killed / Nancy Spector -- The art of Basquiat belongs to the people / J. Faith Almiron -- Black like B. / Greg Tate -- Recollections / compiled by Chaédria LaBouvier.
Jean-Michel Basquiat painted 'Defacement' (The Death of Michael Stewart) in 1983 to commemorate the death of a young, black artist who died from injuries sustained while in police custody after being arrested for allegedly tagging a New York City subway station. Published to accompany a focused exhibition of Basquiat's response to anti-black racism and police brutality, this catalogue explores a chapter in the artist's career through both the lens of his identity and the Lower East Side as a nexus of activism in the early 1980s