Talking Basquiat the Teenage Years

Talking Basquiat the Teenage Years

The great iconic artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is remembered by his friends who knew him when, as a teenager, he first burst upon the Downtown New York scene as Samo and began to make the artworks that sell for millions of dollars today. Sara Driver’s movie Boom for Real is the jumping off point for a conversation about Basquiat and New York in the 80s with “Beginnings” host and Paper magazine founder David Hershkovits, Driver, Alexis Adler, Felice Rosser and Lee Quinones.

This talk was Howl! Happening's key exhibition event for "Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat" a lively discussion about the times and artists in the exhibition. First-hand, and up close and personal, our panel of artists was in the midst of the development of a scene that has produced some of the most influential creators of our time. These artists present an unvarnished “realness” characteristic of the times—intersecting with the public’s avid interest it has pushed whole new generations to appreciate (and long for) that lost, raw and anarchically free era.
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