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Hello, family. It is time for my post on the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit that I visited this weekend too! Yes, Keith Haring AND Basquiat are both in Los Angeles at competing exhibits across the street from each other!
But each is very different.
The Keith Haring exhibit is at The Broad, a contemporary art museum with permanent exhibits of popular artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
The Jean-Michel Basquiat show is at The Grand LA, a mixed-use high-rise space for commercial, retail, restaurants, and residential apartments.
Whereas the Keith Haring exhibit focused on his art, curated by a world-class museum — the Basquiat exhibit was curated by his family from their personal collection and the exhibit was equally about the man just as it was also about his art.
The Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit took place in four different office spaces that they transformed into exhibit space. Here is a picture of Geronimo and I in the quad space between each of the four different office spaces that housed the Basquiat exhibit. .
(To the left between buildings you can see the Los Angeles city hall.)
They recreated his childhood home as well as music playing from a Spotify playlist of the music he grew up listening to:
They also recreated the studio where he painted. In it were the VHS tapes he watched, records he listened to, books he read... as well as some of the art he painted.
And, of course... walls and walls of just his art to admire as well...
Beat Bop (front and back ), 1983
Music : K-Rob, Rammellzee
Cover artwork: Jean-Michel Basquiat
