A new exhibition in downtown L.A., Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure, takes an inside look at the man and his work. That’s aided by access to the artist’s personal life made possible because it’s presented by Basquiat’s estate, run by his sisters Jeanine Heriveaux and Lisane Basquiat.
The forthcoming re-release of his haunting 1996 masterpiece, Older, is another reminder of the tragedies and triumphs of one of pop music’s greatest stars
I HAVE MADE A BREAKTHROUGH in the psychoanalytic study of fags, or psychofaganalysis thanks to Thierry Mugler.At “Thierry Mugler: Couturissime,” a retrospective of his oeuvre at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, I was able to answer a question that has long plagued psychofag-analysts.The question: Why do fags so often create fashion?The answer: They don’t create it; it creates them.“Couturissime” displays more than 150 of Mugler’s designs. It includes runway showpieces, projections of runway shows and music videos, and costumes he designed for the Comédie-Française, a theatrical company that’s