Jean-Michel Basquiat may have died at age 27, but the Brooklyn-born artist remains one of the most original of his generation and an acutely relevant figure some 25 years after his passing. Following an exhibition of his work in Chelsea earlier this year, Gagosian Gallery is playing host to a selection of Basquiat's paintings for the first time in Hong Kong. The artist was born in 1960 to a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother and left his Brooklyn, New York, home at the age of 15. Taking to t...
Jean-Michel Basquiat may have died at age 27, but the Brooklyn-born artist remains one of the most original of his generation and an acutely relevant figure some 25 years after his passing. Following an exhibition of his work in Chelsea earlier this year, Gagosian Gallery is playing host to a selection of Basquiat's paintings for the first time in Hong Kong. The artist was born in 1960 to a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother and left his Brooklyn, New York, home at the age of 15. Taking to t...
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