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Julianne McShane ( The New York Times, June 24, 2021) writes about the exhibition “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation.” She explains, “A dozen artists, most of them Black or Latino, are the subjects of an exhibition that aims to correct oversights in art history.” By 1984, 24-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat had already broken into the mainstream art world. But the onetime street artist still couldn’t shake the legacy of his teenage years spent writing graffiti on the streets of New York City mostly under the moniker of “SAMO,” which he often used to critique the commodification of art. “There was really no ambition in it at all,” Basquiat told the interviewer Marc Miller that year in an episode of “ART/new york,” a video series on contemporary art. “It was stuff from a young mind, you know what I mean?” But the artist was not alone in his teenage pursuits: He was part of a constellation of young graffiti artists who used New York Ci

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