of the most highly auctioned of any painter ever, but also for that spirit, for that energy, for the way that what is valued is what we decide has value. so graffiti or street culture or something that might be someone else s discarded material could be to you an inspiration. so this brings me to something special we re doing in the spirit of all this, as i mentioned, in l.a. i want to share with you on thursday, september 7th, we are joining with basquiat s sisters who you just saw for this special event called beat bop. it deals with art, basquiat and hip-hop. i invite you to go to msnbc.com/beatla. i will be there. you ll meet them, you ll meet them, and there s more details about the event. it s an unusual event because you ll be able to go see works, some of which are from the family and have never been shown before, in the actual l.a. basquiat exhibit, then we re going to have a panel where i m