It is the first major exhibition to contextualize Basquiat’s work in relation to hip-hop and marks the first time his extensive, robust, and reflective portraiture of his Black and Latinx friends and fellow artists has been given prominence in scholarship on his oeuvre.
“Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation” illuminates how this group’s subversive abstractions of both visual and verbal language-including neo-expressionism, freestyle sampling, and wildstyle lettering-rocketed their creative voices onto the main stages of international art and music. Throughout the 1980s, these artists fueled new directions in fine art, design, and music, driving the now-global popularity of hip-hop culture. But hip-hop began as a street-centered art form that described the realities of black people living in poor, urban neighborhoods. This exhibition features his works in painting, sculpture, drawing, video, music, and fashion, alongside works by his contemporaries-and sometimes collaborators-A-One, ERO, Fab 5 Freddy, Futura, Keith Haring, Kool Koor, LA2, Lady Pink, Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee, and Toxic. When Sean Diddy Combs bought artist Kerry James Marshall ’s painting Past Times for 21.1 million, it marked the insertion of hip-hop into the mainstream and the genre itself as a culturally estimable force. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) became the galvanizing, iconic frontrunner of this transformational and insurgent movement in contemporary American art, which resulted in an unprecedented fusion of creative energies that defied longstanding racial divisions. The post-graffiti moment in 1980s New York City marked the transition of street art from city walls and subway trains onto canvas and into the art world. Museum of Fine Arts Boston Main navigation
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