Basquiat

For many of the ambitious young people who circled Andy Warhol, the enigmatic pop artist opened otherwise inaccessible doors but also cast an inescapable shadow.Last month the photographer…

On the heels of a new Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit opening in Los Angeles — one that purports to get to the truth of who the late artist really was — news regarding Basquiat forgeries,…

ORLANDO, FLA. — The Orlando Museum of Art no longer resembles the active crime scene it was in June, when agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Art Crime Team raided the museum…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Orlando Museum of Art has parted ways with its CEO in the days after the FBI raided the…

Boutique auctioneer Phillips sold a 16-foot-wide, red-and-peach painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat for $85 million in New York on Wednesday.  Japanese billionaire…

According to a Tiffany spokeswoman, this was not a joke — and indeed, some seem to have taken it as a challenge: to the integrity of art, and the artist. Basquiat died in 1988 at 27, but in…