This exhibition is much more than the sum of its parts. Entering Gagosian’s Beverly Hills gallery to experience (or, in a couple of cases, re-experience) twenty-seven works produced by Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1982 and 1984 in Venice, California—reunited not too far east of where they were made, and even less west of where they were first shown—was not what I had anticipated.
Ahead of the upcoming GRAMMY® Awards, holstering an “Album of the Year” nomination for his engineering efforts on Jon Batiste’s latest album (2023’s World Music Radio), Marc Whitmore releases his sophomore album, mirages, today.
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The full title of this article by Tessa Solomon (ARTnews) is “Monumental Basquiat Self-Portrait Unseen Since 1999 to Appear at Sotheby’s.” “Self Portrait as a Heel (Part Two)” will be exhibited at Sotheby’s New York galleries starting November 1, 2023. A self-portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat hidden from public view for nearly a quarter-century is set to be a marquee…