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Basquiat's "Defacement": The Untold Story

By Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf (Contribution by), Carlo McCormick (Contribution by), Jeffrey Deitch (Contribution by), Nancy Spector (Text by), Greg Tate (Text by), Luc Sante (Contribution by), J. Faith Almiron (Text by), Chaédria LaBouvier (Text by), Fred Braithwaite (Contribution by), Michelle Shocked (Contribution by)
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By Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf (Contribution by), Carlo McCormick (Contribution by), Jeffrey Deitch (Contribution by), Nancy Spector (Text by), Greg Tate (Text by), Luc Sante (Contribution by), J. Faith Almiron (Text by), Chaédria LaBouvier (Text by), Fred Braithwaite (Contribution by), Michelle Shocked (Contribution by)
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Police brutality, racism, graffiti and the art world of the early-1980s Lower East Side converge in one painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat painted Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart) on the wall of Keith Haring’s studio in 1983 to commemorate the death of a young black artist who died from injuries sustained while in police custody after being arrested for allegedly tagging a New York City subway station. Defacement is the starting point for the present volume, which...

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