You can not really say you know Basquiat's work if you've seen them only in reproductions and have not stood in front of one. So, where can you see a Basquiat? Below is a list of 1) recent and upcoming temporary exhibitions where you can see some of his work, and 2) a list of museums and other permanent collections open to the public where you can see more. Rare works by the artist are sometimes available to see in free previews before auction. See the auction page of this website for details. For research purposes this page also contains a list of 3) all Basquiat's one-person gallery shows in his lifetime, and 4) a retrospective list of major museum exhibitions of his work. CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS OF BASQUIAT WORKS
Ménage à trois: Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente. Exhibition focused on eight works done collaboratively by the three artists in 1983 and 1984, with over 100 other works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Francisco Clemente. At the Bundeskunsthalle, Museumsmeile Bonn, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4, 53113 Bonn, Germany (February 2nd to May 20, 2012) www.bundeskunsthalle.de 30 Americans. Three works by Basquiat are among the 75 works by 31 contemporary African American artists made over the last 30 years in this traveling exhibition. The works are drawn from the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida, and a version of the exhibition was previously on view there, and then at the North Carolina Museum of Art (March 19 to September 4, 2011). It is now at the Corcoran Museum, Washington DC, October 1st, 2011 to February 2012. Corcoran Museum's "30 Americans" page. More info on the exhibition and its unfortunate sponsorship. RECENT EXHIBITIONS OF BASQUIAT WORKS
Warhol and Basquiat, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, September 3, 2011 to January 14, 2012. Curated by Dieter Buchhart, the exhibition of over 60 works includes many of their collaborations done in 1984 and 1985, supplemented by paintings and prints done by both Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat individually. Warhol Headlines, at the Smithsonian’s National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Sept. 25, 2011 to Jan. 2, 2012, examines Warhol's works based on headlines and the tabloid press, and happens to include a Warhol/Basquiat collaboration.Club 57 and Friends, The Dorian
Grey Gallery, 437 East 9th Street, NY, NY, 8 September - 9 October, 2011. One nice drawing ("Warrior"), and several minor early works by Basquiat, along with photographs and works by Keith Haring and others associated with the informal art shows at Club 57 in the early 1980s. http://www.doriangreygallery.com/club57.html Art in the Streets,
The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los
Angeles, 17 April 2011 – 8 August 2011. A Basquiat painting and
decorated ceramic are featured in the Fun Gallery section of this large
museum overview of graffiti and street art. See: www.MOCA.org. [NOTE: the exhibition was scheduled to move to the Brooklyn Museum in 2012, but the museum has canceled the show (see more). Attempts are being made to find other venues for the exhibition after closing at MOCA.] Graffiti New York 80’s: Group Exhibition. La Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, 36-38 Avenue Matignon 75008 Paris. Three small 1978 works on paper by the young Basquiat (including the student stoner Razu) are on view, alongside several large colorful works by 10 other artists coming out of the graffiti tradition and classic train writers, including Dondi White, Crash, Blade, A-One, Toxic, Rammellzee, Futura 2000, Fab 5 Freddy, and Keith Haring. The exhibition is on from May 27 – July 20, 2011. More info: http://www.denoirmont.com/exposition-de-noirmont-graffiti-new-york-1980-basquiat-aone-blade-blast.html The Street Art Show, June 17-30th, Opera Gallery, 134 New Bond Street, London, W1S. The home of the infamous Mr. Brainwash briefly brought together works by street artists and graffiti writers across continents and generations. Basquit's 1983 painting Chimp was on view, along with pieces from Keith Haring, CRASH, Blek Le Rat, Banksy, Swoon, Sweet Toof, and others. PDF. Made In Italy, Gagosian Gallery Rome. This show of Italy-inspired works by a catch-all group of modern artists includes a Basquait work, apparently inspired by Italian archeology. Gagosian Gallery Rome, Via Francesco Crispi 16 00187 Rome, Italy , May 27, 2011 thru July 29, 2011. The 80s Revisited: The Bischofberger Collection. March 13, 2011 - June 19, 2011, Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Germany). The second part of this two part, and one-sided, exhibition concentrates on American artists. Basquiat’s Brown Spots (a 1994 portrait of Andy Warhol as a Banana) is shown alongside a Schnabel plate painting, and works by Salle, Haring, Sharf, Condo & Bidlo, and a large Warhol / Basquiat collaboration Op OP (1984). For more info see http://www.kunsthalle-bielefeld.de/index.php?id=13&L=1 Sketchbook for Arto. Twenty-odd pages from a never-before exhibited 1981 Basquiat notebook on view by appointment only at AS IF Gallery, 529 Manhattan Ave, Harlem, New York, May 7-28, 2011. More info. Jean-Michel Basquiat, 15 October 2010 to 30 January 2011, the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (City Museum of Modern Art, Paris), . The large retrospective exhibition that opened at the Foundation Beyeler then moved to Paris, and ran through the 50th anniversary of Basquiat's birth. A rare and major event for Basquiat fans. More. “Andy Warhol: The Last Decade,” closed at the Baltimore Museum of Art on January 9th, 2011. The exhibition included several Basquiat/Warhol collaborations. Curated by Joseph D. Ketner II, the exhibition opened at the Milwaukee Art Museum (Wisconsin), September 26, 2009 to January 3, 2010, where it had an entire section devoted to the collaborations, including the classic Arm and Hammer II, (Acrylic on Canvas, 76 x 112 inches, 1985) and the Basquiat/Warhol/Clemente collaboration Alba's Breakfast (1984). It then traveled to the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art (Texas), February 14 to May 16, 2010, and the Brooklyn Museum (New York) from June 18 to September 12, 2010, where four collaborations with Basquiat were on view (Origin of Cotton, 50 Dentures, and two large Untitled works). More. A copy of the Basquiat album cover "Beat Bop" was included at "The Record," and exhibition on "the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art." Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, August 19, 2010 to January 23, 2011. Basquiat exhibition at La Galerie Pascal Lansberg in Paris (36, rue de Seine, 6th Arrondissement, open Tues–Sat, 2 pm–7 pm) through December 4th, 2010. Works on loan for show included the large Portrait of James Brown and the drawing Matisse, Matisse, Matisse. The single Basquiat painting Flash in Naples (1983) was on view at the Nevada Museum of Art, from July 13 to November 28, 2010. More. Basquiat/Terada/Mapplethorpe. Several Basquiat works, including painting, collage, drawings and large prints, were on view at the Robert Miller Gallery in in Chelsea (524 West 26th Street), in a triple show along with Mayumi Terada and Robert Mapplethorpe, on view from September 23rd to October 30th, 2010. See footage of the show. Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Fondation Beyeler (Basel, Switzerland), May 9th to September 5th, 2010. A major retrospective exhibition of well over 100 works of Jean-Michel Basquiat -- which later traveled to the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (above). More. Several works by Basquiat were shown as part of Street and Studio: From Basquiat to Séripop, a street art exhibition at the Kunsthalle, Viena from June 25th to October 10th, 2010. His works Self Portrait (Plaid), 1983; The Lake, 1983; a few great combine works, and a Basquiat/Warhol collaboration were shown, alongside works by early graffiti artists Futura, Lady Pink, and Ramm:ell:zee; other contemporaries Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Francesco Clemente, and Charlie Ahearn; and contemporary street artists Banksy and Séripop. See video of the exhibition. Several Basquiat paintings were shown at the We Want Miles: Miles Davis vs. Jazz exhibition at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts April 30 to August 29, 2010. The Jazz themed Basquiat works included the great Horn Players (1983), and Bird of Paradise (1984). Three Basquiat canvases, Thirty-Sixth Figure, Number 4, and Third Street, were shown with works by two older modern artists at the "Miró/Dubuffet/Basquiat" exhibition at the Nassau County Museum of Art (1 Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor, NY 11576), March 13 to May 23, 2010. More. Many of Basquiat’s works were shown in the Art Fair “Art Basel, 2010” June 16-20th. These include Gas Truck, 1984, at the stand of the Shafrazi gallery (booth F7), and the long multi-panel work from 1982, The Dutch Sellers (Bruno Bischofberger - C9). Others are the triptych Catharsis, 1984, and the early Untitled (Self-portrait: the King), 1981, at Edward Tyler Nahem (F15); and the large work on paper Ribs, Ribs, 1982 at L&M Arts (B18). Two of the many Basquiat works containing skull imagery are included in "C’est la vie! Vanités de Caravaggio à Damien Hirst" Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Paris, February 3 to June 28, 2010. The exhibition includes 160 vanitas-themed items with the once-again fashionable skull and skeleton motifs, from a Roman-era mosaic, through Caravaggio and Zurbarán to the modern like Cézanne & Braque to Warhol, Haring, Basquiat, and the contemporary diamond dust print of a skull from Damien Hirst. The Basquiat works are Do Not Revenge (acrylic, oilstick and collage on panel, 1982), and Untitled (oilstick on paper) from 1988, the year of his death.
Basquiat (and Keith Haring) are names included along with recent street artists like Blek le Rat, Banksy, Faile, Swoon, and the currently ubiquitous Shepard Fairey, in a London group show, "Now's the Time." The show was named after a Basquiat painting of the same name (which in turn refers to Charlie Parker's be-bop tune), but that work is currently at the Fondation Beyeler exhibition, not at this show. The title also refers to the shows contention that it is now the time for a new generation of street artists to join the mainstream art world, a move seen previously in Basquiat and Haring. Unfortunately, the more contemporary works are of mixed quality, and the "Basquiat's" inferior prints. The show was in Black Rat Projects' space in a brick railway arch in London's East End: Cargo Garden, Arch 461, Kingsland Viaduct, 83 Rivington St. London. EC2A 3AY. From April 22 to May 20, 2010. More. Four Basquiat works, including an untitled oilstick of a head (1982), the major painting Trunk (1982), and an exquisite untitled diptych on metal (1984), were showing in the exhibition "Your History is Not Our History" at Haunch of Venision (1230 6th Avenue, Manhattan), March 5 through May 1, 2010. The show attempts to give a new view of the art of the 1980s in New York City. More. Basquiat's Untitled (Red Man) was included in a large group show called “Crash,” at Gagosian Gallery, London (6-24 Britannia Street), February 11, 2010 to April 1, 2010. The show is a tribute to J.G. Ballard's novels. More. A rarely seen Basquiat painting (Untitled, 1981) was being exhibited for sale by Martin Summers Fine Art, London in February 2010. http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/15555/4087/4096/martin-summers-fine-art-london/artwork/jean-michel-basquiat-untitled/ Basquiat’s Untitled (St Mark’s Church), 1981 was shown in the group woks on paper show "Big Paper Winter," Woodward Gallery, Manhattan, January 16, 2010 to February 27, 2010. http://www.woodwardgallery.net/exhibitions/ex-paper9.html A Basquiat record cover was seen in "Play it! Record covers by artists," Lorence Loewy Bookstore Gallery, 9 rue de thorigny 75003 Paris, 20 February to 27 March 2010. The show presents a selection of LPs, CDs, cassettes, with music and / or covers created by visual artists, and catalogs featuring the history of relations between sound and visual arts since the early sixties. One of the items on display is Jean-Michel Basquiat’s cover for Beat Bop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Bop (Test Pressing Version one, 1983, Tartown Records). This is a 12" vinyl single of the ten minute track featuring Rammellzee K-Rob on vocals, produced by Jean-Michel Basquiat, with Basquiat’s black and white cover art Basquiat's anti-colonial painting Native Carrying some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari, 1982, and some Peter Moore photos of Basquiat’s early SAMO© graffiti were on view as part of the mixed bu interesting exhibition Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool 29 January - 25 April. Basquiat’s large Six Crimee (1982), an acrylic and oil stick on masonite, in three panels, was seen at "MOCA's First Thirty Years," Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, Nov. 15, 2009 to May 3, 2010. More. "Jean-Michel Basquiat's large scale drawings from 1981 and 1982," Stellan Holm Gallery, Chelsea, Manhattan, November 3 to December 5th, 2009. The six works on view are all 60 x 40 inches, done in oil-stick on thick paper or paperboard. They are mostly untitled single standing figures, with the exception of Self Portrait with Suzanne, featuring the couple in heated conversation. More. Two different record covers designed by Basquiat (The Offs, and Beat Bop), and a drawing (Untitled 1981, oilstick on paper. 40 x 60") were on view at MoMA. The show "Looking at Music: Side 2" was on at the Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan from June 10, 2009 to November 30, 2009. The exhibition examined the relation between visual artists and (mostly punk) music in the New York of the late 1970s to early 1980s. The show also included Peter Moore’s 1979 photograph of Basquiat’s SAMO graffito "LIFE IS CONFUSING AT THIS POINT"; a series of Jenny Holzer truisms; the video of Blondie’s Rapture, featuring Basquiat standing in as a DJ; and an audio conversation “Fab 5 Freddy and Diego Cortez on music and graffiti in New York City” (audio: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/lookingatmusic2/audio.html ) Basquiat was among the artists included in “USA Collected Visions,” Bronx Museum of the Arts (1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St. Bronx, 10456-3999) March 5, 2009 to May 10, 2009. This is a disparate show of 70 artworks by 58 artists from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. Basquiat’s Pedestrian I (1984) was exhibited as part of "A tribute to Ron Waren," Mary Boone Gallery 541 West 24 Street, Chelsea, Manhattan, 12 September to 24 October, 2009. More. Basquiat's large 1986 tribute to Louis Armstrong, King Zulu, was included in The Jazz Century. This was a traveling exhibition of nearly 1,000 works; objects and documents relating to Jazz from 1905 to the present -- including photos, record covers, and 150 artworks ranging from European Modernists Mattise, Léger, Man Ray, George Grosz and Dubuffet and through American moderns Arthur Dove, Jackson Pollock, and Romare Bearden, to many contemporary African-American artists including Robert Colescott, David Hammons, Lorna Simpson, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Museo di Arte moderna i contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Italy (15/11/2008 - 15/02/2009); Musée du quai Branly, Paris France (10/03/2009 - 28/06/2009); Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (CCCB), Spain (21/07/2009 - 18/10/2009).
BASQUIAT WORKS ON VIEW IN PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Many art museums worldwide have one or more Basquit's in their collections, but they are not always on display. It is a good idea to contact them first and see if they are available before going there for that purpose. Below is a selected list of museums and other collections that include Basquiat works. Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut. A major private collection with many important Basquiat works, including Per Capita (1981), St. Joe Louis Surrounded by Snakes (1982), In Italian (1983), Now's The Time (1985), and many more. An appointment is needed to view the works. Contact thebrantfoundation@gmail.com. Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA. An excellent sampling of 15 Basquiat paintings from these early collectors. Includes Untitled (Head) 1981, Obnoxious Liberals (1982), Horn Players (1983), Gold Griot (1984), and more. http://www.broadartfoundation.org/artist_14.html Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA. A good sampling of Basquiat’s work from 1981-1984, with two color drawings on paper, the suit of anatomical screen prints From Leonardo, and three paintings including Untitled (Ashes), 1981, from his first Annina Nosie show, and the large Six Crimee, 1982. Display Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA. Several of the Warhol/Basquiat collaborations are in the collection, including large paintings and the painted punching bags titled Judge. Beaubourg (Le Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou), Parisn France. The large Basquiat painting Slave Auction, 1982. Installation view. Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland. Basquiat’s paintings King Alphonso, 1982, and Formless, 1984, and the major "Daros Suite" of 32 Basquiat drawings. Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan. Untitled 1984.Guggenheim Bilbao (Spain), The collection includes Basquiat’s Man From Naples (1982), and Moses and the Egyptians (1982). High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Untitled (Cadmium), 1984. Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany. Blue Gyp Stock, 1983. Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC. (includes a nice painted and collaged wooden cube sculpture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/randallwfuller/1497669994/in/pool-1258394@N21/) Menil Collection, Houston, TX. The museum has only one Basquiat piece in its permanent collection (but a fantastic collection of Cy Twombly).Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. The Met has two untitled drawings (1985 and 1986) given by the estate, but they are almost never displayed. http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp?command=text&datascope=all&attr1=Basquiat
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX. One large Untitled 1981 Basquiat drawing in oilstick of a standing figure. http://themodern.org/f_html/basquiat.html Museu d'Art Contemporanei, Barcelona, Spain. Sterno, 1985; Self-Portrait, 1986; King Zulu, 1986. Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany. Six Months, 1987. Musee d'Art Contemporain, Marseilles. Basquiat’s King of the Zulus (1984-5), an acrylic and collage work referring to both to Africa and the jazz musician Louis Armstrong in New Orleans. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. MoMA owns several nice Basquiat works on paper, four drawings and one screen print, from 1981 to 1985, but they are seldom out on view for the public. Display DetailsPrinceton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ. Two of Basquiat's Crosby Street era paintings, Leonardo do Vinci's Greatest Hits (1982), and the great Notary (1983), from the Schorr Family Collection, are on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum. Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida. Three Basquiat works: the large 1981 Bird On Money, the 1982 painting on exposed wood supports One Million Yen, and Untitled (Self Portrait), 1982-3. State Museum of Florence, Italy. Self Portrait (1986). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. There are six Basquiat works in the permanent collection. The paintings LNAPRK (1982) and Hollywood Africans (1983) are usually on view to the public. http://www.whitney.org/Collection/JeanMichelBasquiat.
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