Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)

From 1983 to 1988 renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked here, a former stable owned by friend and mentor Andy Warhol. Basquiat’s paintings and other work challenged established notions of high and low art, race and class, while forging a visionary language that defied characterization.

Location: 57 Great Jones Street


Submitted by The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

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• keith haring
• kenny scarf
• julian schnabel
• al diaz
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• annina nosei gallery
• mary boone gallery
• gagosian gallery
• galerie bruno bischofberger
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• 1981 independent film downtown 81 (a.k.a. new york beat movie)
• 1981 rené ricard article “the radiant child