Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Birthday: 1960-12-22

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting. Basquiat died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988, at the age of 27. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Michel Basquiat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Downtown '81
Downtown '81

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to r...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City p...

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Con Artist
Con Artist

A docu-comedy feature film about a once-famous millionaire "business artist" forced to confront his ...

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King Pleasure
King Pleasure

Upcoming documentary about artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The estate of the legendary artist is on boa...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu
Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu

The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for ident...

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Shooting Star: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Shooting Star: Jean-Michel Basquiat

Traces the meteoric rise to fame of the Haitian-Puerto Rican artist whose success was unprecedented ...

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Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Basquiat: Rage to Riches

This film tells Jean-Michel's story through exclusive interviews with his two sisters Lisane and Jea...

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A Conversation with Basquiat
A Conversation with Basquiat

A candid interview with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat near the end of his life....

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Blondie Greatest Video Hits
Blondie Greatest Video Hits

1)In The Flesh 2)X Offender 3)Denis 4)Detroit 442 5)(I'm Always Touched By Your)Presence,Dear 6)Pict...

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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New Yor...

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TV Party
TV Party

From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party....

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Basquiat, Une Vie
Basquiat, Une Vie

From Brooklyn to the Bronx, Soho to Greenwich, Union Square to Wall Street... Join us and the friend...

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And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop

The film documents the development of hip hop culture since its inception in the 1970s. With intervi...

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by...

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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at ...

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The Universe of Keith Haring
The Universe of Keith Haring

A portrait of New York artist Keith Haring. The film looks to Haring as an artistic role model for h...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: An Interview
Jean-Michel Basquiat: An Interview

On this program we see a rare interview with the mercurial painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat, conducted ...

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Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1...

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Back To Basquiat
Back To Basquiat

In a time of conservatism and racism during the Reagan years, New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat f...

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