Those familiar with the artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat will agree that he is a writer. Language and text factor heavily in all his work, evidenced by the early graffiti pieces (done under the pseudonym SAMO) that launched his career. The Unknown Notebooks, on view at the Brooklyn Museum, features the pages of eight of his notebooks lining the gallery walls in vitrines and frames.
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Coming Soon: Basquiat the Musical
Left: Jean-Michel Basquiat; right: Basquiat’s “Untitled” (1981), acrylic, oilstick and spray paint…
A collaborative work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Untitled” (c.1980-85) at the Brooklyn Museum’s current Haring show. This is one of the more unusual works in the show.
Agitprop! ought to be an outstanding exhibition of politically engaged art. A feverish amalgam of historic and contemporary artwork, the exhibition is undermined by an ambitious but poorly executed curatorial strategy.
Brooklyn Museum’s Activist Art Show Is a Messy Collision of Curation and Politics
We received the following image in our inbox from a reader who spotted this a few weeks ago. It’s a flier created in response to the Brooklyn Museum’s decision to cancel the Art in the Streets street art/graffiti/skateboarding exhibition next year “due to the current financial climate”:
I live … across the street from the Brooklyn Museum. I was just cleaning out a pile of papers on my desk and saw this flyer I had saved. A few weeks ago I was walking my dog on Eastern Parkway and saw these fliers all up and down the stretch in front of the museum. I support my neighborhood musuem, but thought you guys might be interested in a snapshot before I threw it out.
Last September, Arnold Lehman announced that he would retire from his position as the director of the Brooklyn Museum. The news was big: Lehman had been at the helm since 1997, and over the course of those 17-plus years, he reshaped the institution in his image in many ways.
On Leaving the Brooklyn Museum After 17 Years: An Interview with Arnold Lehman
