Jean-Michel Basquiat : Videos
Interviews with the artist, testimonies, art analysis, and documentaries such as “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child“, famous documentary film produced and directed by Tamra Davis.
It is also present the movie Downtown 81, film starring Basquiat and awarded at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
Video focused on analyzing the meaning of words in Basquiat’s work. The video was made by NAHMAD CONTEMPORARY on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Words Are All We Have: Paintings By Jean-michel Basquiat‘ (May 2nd – Jun 18th 2016).
Video produced by the NAHMAD CONTEMPORARY on the occasion of the ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat | Xerox‘ Curated by Dieter Buchhart March 12 – May 31, 2019.
The exhibition is the first concentrated examination of the extraordinary body of work that the artist created using Xerox photocopies as his principal medium and compositional focal point.
Panel Discussion on May 3rd, 2019: Diego Cortez, Jeffrey Deitch, and Jordana Moore Saggese in discussion with Dieter Buchhart.
An interesting video shot at the Barbican Art Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Basquiat Boom for Real‘ (Thu 21 Sep 2017 — Sun 28 Jan 2018). The video contains the art analysis of some of Basquiat’s works.
Video produced by PHILLIPS in which Zach Miner, Head of the Contemporary Art Evening Sale, and Benjamin Godsill, Contemporary Art Specialist, discuss Warhol and Basquiat’s collaboration as being a moment far ahead of its time.
From the inside out – Basquiat’s Red Skull (1982). Video produced by Christie’s for Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction – London 6 October 2017 in which the painting Red Skull was sold.
Video produced by Sotheby’s for the auction on 3 October 2019 in London in which the work “Pyro” was sold.
Urban chaos, graffiti-like figures, silkscreened animals, architectural shrines and curious scientific models converge and collide with dizzying force in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s spectacular painting, ‘Pyro’.
