Over to presenter and producer Leanne Wright. The author. Basquiat: Boom for Real is the first large-scale exhibition in the UK of the work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960­-1988). Basquiat, Boom For Real, Barbican Art Gallery, London, review: The art itself is drowned by fame-frothy noise and visuals. This is an exhibition where, in the words of Jane Alison, the Barbican’s Head of Visual Arts, we can “see those works in the context of the New York scene of the 1980s.” Jean-Michel Basquiat; Exhibitions; reviews; Reuse this content. This is rather more than that and all the better for it. Basquiat: Boom for Real at the Barbican to 28 January 2018 More visual art reviews on theartsdesk In a self-portrait of 1982, he looks like a strange cross between a voodoo god, Jesus Christ crowned with thorns and a boxing champion Eleanor Nairne is a curator at the Barbican Art Gallery.She has worked on a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions and publications, including Basquiat: Boom for Real (2017) and Imran Qureshi: Where the Shadows are so Deep (2016).Prior to the Barbican, she was curator of the Artangel Collection at Tate. Barbican Art Gallery, London 21 September 2017 – 28 January 2018. by JOE LLOYD. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) is the archetype of the doomed young artist, dead at 27 of a heroin overdose. One of the most significant painters of the 20th century, Basquiat came of age in the late 1970s in the post-punk underground art scene in downtown New York. comments (0) • Basquiat: Boom for Real is at Barbican Art Gallery, London, from 21 September to 28 January. Basquiat: Boom for Real A revelatory exhibition at the Barbican liberates Jean-Michel Basquiat from his mythos and allows his art to speak for itself. The art of Jean-Michel Basquiat … ‘Boom For Real’ at the Barbican is an absolutely incredible exhibition showcasing the works and life of the neo-expressionist art legend, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Topics. The big Jean-Michel Basquiat show at London’s Barbican features artwork valued in the tens of millions of dollars. A film in Boom for Real shows him walking through Manhattan, a … Drawing from international museums and private collections, Basquiat: Boom for Real brings together an outstanding selection … Do not come to the latest Barbican Gallery exhibition Basquiat: Boom for Real expecting a straightforward show of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work. Basquiat: Boom for Real is the first large-scale exhibition in the UK of the work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960—1988). BE: To coincide with ‘Basquiat Boom For Real’ in the Barbican Gallery, which ran from September 2017 to January 2018, Worldwide FM presents ‘The Golden Griot’, a soundtrack to the life and art of Jean Michel Basquiat.

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