…scholar, educator, and cultural symposium producer and co-founder of the BASQUIAT: STILL FLY @ 55 Project – moderated a spectacular panel featuring four artists, writers, Basquiat peers, and cultural critics who…
Read More…Family Life Theatre, Basquiat created a fictional character he called SAMO (Same Old Sh**) who makes a living selling fake religion. Basquiat and Diaz started collaborating on the SAMO project….
Read More…his work with a theatre group called Family Life Theatre, Basquiat created a fictional character he called SAMO (Same Old Sh**) who makes a living selling fake religion. Basquiat and…
Read More…Manhattan. Basquiat’s former studio at studio at 57 Great Jones Street In the fall of 1978, Basquiat met fellow downtown artists and scene-makers Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, both major…
Read MoreBasquiat and NoHo In the late 1980’s, Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked at 57 Great Jones Street in Manhattan. This studio space owned by Andy Warhol served as a kind…
Read More…the exhibits available online. Today we explore three more of our 31 shadowboxes from the event, covering Jean-Michel Basquiat, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Margaret Wise Brown. Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat’s career…
Read MoreJean-Michel Basquiat December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988 Painter, Street Artist, Social Commentator Basquiat’s work turned the art world upside down with its graphic boldness and devotion to the…
Read MoreJean-Michel Basquiat Historic Plaque Ceremony The great American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) forged an innovative and inspiring language that melded his urban American experience with his African-Caribbean heritage. The painter,…
Read More…Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Former NYC Studio, Hyperallergic, July 10 Angelina Jolie is renting Jean Michel-Basquiat’s last New York apartment, Daily Herald News Today, July 10 Angelina Jolie is renting Jean-Michel Basquiat’s…
Read More…panel conversation about Basquiat. She spoke largely about her relationship with Basquiat as his career emerged, took shape, and then took off. There was no roadmap for someone like Basquiat,…
Read More…friend of Basquiat’s. The panel will be moderated by Eric Fretz, author of the Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography. This distinguished group of speakers who look back at Basquiat’s life and…
Read More…neighborhoods, Village Preservation placed a plaque on his residence at 27 Cooper Square in 2017. Jean-Michel Basquiat From 1983 until his death in 1988, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked…
Read More…Basquiats since the 1980s and stated: “Basquiat has been a cornerstone of the East Village art scene for decades….and to bring his work back to the neighborhood that inspired it…
Read More…art scene (it’s also said that Basquiat was at the time dating then-unknown singer Madonna), and Basquiat’s lineage informed much of the aesthetic of his art. Basquiat died of a…
Read More…spoke to Basquiat’s spirit and enduring legacy. (Check out our photos and video from the Basquiat presentation, and learn more about the other downtown sites we’ve marked with plaques.) The…
Read More…lived on Great Jones Street from 1983-1988; photo via Wikimedia 15. Jean-Michel Basquiat Studio From 1983 until his death in 1987, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked in a former stable…
Read More…57 Great Jones Street, then you are correct! Andy Warhol owned the building from 1970 to 1990 and leased it to his friend, Jean-Michel Basquiat, in 1983. Basquiat, who used…
Read MoreImage via Photobucket and willie99_01 On August 12th, 1988, art legend Jean Michel-Basquiat was announced dead at Cabrini Medical Center on East 19th Street. According to the autopsy, Basquiat died…
Read More…death in 1988, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked in a former stable located at 57 Great Jones Street. Basquiat was one of the first Black artists to achieve his…
Read More…partner in crime, Jean-Michel Basquiat, were instrumental in bringing the Graffiti Art movement from the subway cars and other boroughs of New York to the bubbling downtown art and club…
Read More…Studio Located at 57 Great Jones Street, this plaque commemorates the site of the home and studio of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat forged an innovative and inspiring language that melded…
Read More…Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. They painted murals inside the store, and Basquiat, when he was still known by his graffiti tag SAMO, painted on jumpsuits made out of tyvek. With…
Read More…Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. They painted murals inside the store, and Basquiat, when he was still known by his graffiti tag SAMO, painted on jumpsuits made out of tyvek. With…
Read More…Dolls (whose guitarist, Johnny Thunders, would reputedly get his sugar fixes there in between sets at CBGBs). Artists Robert Mapplethorpe and Jean-Michel Basquiat were also fans. As would befit an…
Read More…Eustis, and other Village residents and supporters who lent their voices to this project. Berenice Abbott W.H. Auden James Baldwin Jean-Michel Basquiat Elizabeth Blackwell Margaret Wise Brown e.e. cummings Merce…
Read MoreClockwise from top left: Christopher Street Liberation March, 1972; Evan Wolfson, founder of Freedom to Marry; artist Jean-Michel Basquiat; the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, 1971; the African Grove Theatre circa…
Read More…a mural that hung above the dance floor. Jean-Michel Basquiat painted a mural that was placed behind one of the club’s bars. Francesco Clemente painted a fresco above the staircase….
Read More…to Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, the Talking Heads, Blondie, and other New York icons. Julian Voloj is an award-winning photographer and author who has published four collaborative graphic novels to date:…
Read More…key figures of the era, including fellow artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, Tseng Kwong Chi, actress Debi Mazar, and hip hop pioneer Fab Five Freddy. Like Haring, sadly many of…
Read More…and the East Village in the 1980s. The man behind these enigmatic silhouettes was Richard Hambleton, a peer of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring who garnered extensive media coverage with…
Read More…African Americans were the first non-native settlers. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tuxedo, 1982-83 (detail) This year we’re planning three special programs to outline key moments of the African American experience in our…
Read More…(a.k.a. Mos Def), artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and recording artist Patty Smyth. Magda Love The school’s music and arts department, MAD Academy, hews to the institution’s philosophy, allowing students to develop…
Read More…American Cities argued that “urban renewal did not respect the needs of city dwellers.” New sites and locations of the shadowboxes include Jean-Michel Basquiat, E. E. Cummings, Merce Cunningham, John W….
Read More…plaque unveiling on Thursday, October 6 — CLICK HERE Learn more about our historic plaque program, honoring figures from James Baldwin to Jane Jacobs, Jean-Michel Basquiat to Elizabeth Blackwell, here….
Read More…former homes of Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorraine Hansberry, Frank Stella, Martha Graham, Frank O’Hara, and Elizabeth Blackwell; the headquarters of the NAACP and The Crisis Magazine; Julius’…
Read More…takes you on an exploration of more key points and people to be found throughout our neighborhoods’ past, including the most chronologically recent item, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s home and studio…
Read More…Haley, James Baldwin, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to tours of African American historic sites in our neighborhoods, to past programs about the Underground Railroad, Black Bohemia, the first black theater in…
Read More…figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry. Register today to secure…
Read More…Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, and many more. Explore all our historic plaques — CLICK HERE…
Read More…our 22nd plaque unveiling. Our program has honored and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank…
Read More…1980s creator of the hip hop music program Graffiti Rock, and was a founding member of the experimental band Gray along with Jean-Michel Basquiat. Holman hired The Rock Steady Crew, Fab Five Freddy, DJ Afrika…
Read More…the Fun Gallery and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s solo exhibition opened on November 4, 1982. Flier for a Keith Haring show at FUN Gallery The gallery gave many graffiti artists – and,…
Read More…Basquiat, Joey Ramone, Debbie Harry, Julian Schnabel, Carolina Herrera, Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente, Madonna etc. all hanging out with the Bronx kids and downtown hipsters. Awesome.” Flier for a 1982…
Read More…figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically…
Read More…honored figures from James Baldwin to Jane Jacobs; Lorraine Hansberry to LeRoi Jones; Anaïs Nin to Alex Haley; painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham (next door to…
Read More…Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry. Register today to secure your spot! Click here to register…
Read More…the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry….
Read More…and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to…
Read More…HERE This is our 23nd plaque unveiling. Our plaque program has honored and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg…
Read More…who called our neighborhoods home, from Berenice Abbott to Jean-Michel Basquiat; Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin; Bob Dylan to Billie Holiday; Edward Hopper to Edna St. Vincent Millay; and many…
Read More…Basquiat, Joey Ramone, Debbie Harry, Julian Schnabel, Carolina Herrera, Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente, Madonna etc. all hanging out with the Bronx kids and downtown hipsters. Awesome.” Flier for a 1982…
Read More…than a dozen videos from Village Preservation exploring and celebrating Black history, from plaque-unveiling ceremonies honoring Lorraine Hansberry, Alex Haley, James Baldwin, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to tours of African American…
Read More…Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former…
Read More…and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry; as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP…
Read More…is our 23nd plaque unveiling. Our program has honored and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus;…
Read More…New York chapter of the Black Panthers founded here. In the late 20th century, artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ellen Stewart, and Spike Lee launched their careers here. The rich African…
Read More…Sip-In, our plaques have honored figures from James Baldwin to Jane Jacobs; Lorraine Hansberry to LeRoi Jones; Anaïs Nin to Alex Haley; painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha…
Read More…He told me later that he was tripping on acid.” by Basquiat Gem Spa’s corner on the southwest side of the intersection of St. Mark’s Place and Second Avenue is…
Read More…studios of artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Chaim Gross. 2015 In January Village Preservation released its proposal for a contextual rezoning of the University Place and Broadway corridors to prevent developments like the 300…
Read More…Jean Michel Basquiat at the time of his death in 1988.” The report helped us determine that the same building has been in place since the turn of the century,…
Read More…for drugs), the street has also occupied a space in our popular imagination as a home for creatives. Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat had a home and studio on the street. Also,…
Read More…getting the most onerous parts of the bill removed. Unveiled historic plaques marking the former homes and studios of artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Chaim Gross. in conjunction with partner Two…
Read More…for some of the late-twentieth century’s best known American artists, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Chuck Close, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, upon whose home and studio GVSHP placed a plaque in 2016. For the…
Read More…downtown roots. The video for “Rapture” is set in a a surreal space which is a virtual mash up of downtown figures, including a young Jean-Michel Basquiat (for more stories…
Read More…the East Village, and at Westbeth, landmarked after many years of advocacy by GVSHP. Fellow artists included Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, Tseng Kwong Chi, actress Debi Mazar, and hip hop pioneer Fab Five Freddy. …
Read More…Basquiat and Lorraine Hansberry; 27 Cooper Square, home of the Black Arts Movement; the site of the first meeting of Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG); and…
Read More…57 Great Jones Street, which Andy Warhol owned beginning in 1970 and leased it to his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat as a studio and residence from 1983 until his death in…
Read More…Jean-Michel Basquiat, Spike Lee, Charles Mingus, Ellen Stewart, and RuPaul here. Want more East Village African American History? Check out our Civil Rights & Social Justice Map, for sites connected…
Read More…like Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring. Scores of galleries opened here, and eventually the Guggenheim SoHo, the New Museum, and the Museum for African Art also opened in the neighborhood….
Read More…our plaques have honored figures from James Baldwin to Jane Jacobs; Lorraine Hansberry to LeRoi Jones; Anaïs Nin to Alex Haley; painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham…
Read More…Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Lorraine Hansberry; 27 Cooper Square, home of the Black Arts Movement; the site of the first meeting of Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays…
Read More…The Brant Foundation, features over 20 artists integral to its collection, including works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Dan Flavin and many more. This event is fully accessible….
Read More…East Village and beyond. On this tour, we will visit sites associated with pioneers such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and Jimi Hendrix. In addition, we will explore…
Read More…and the East Village in the 1980s. The man behind these enigmatic silhouettes was Richard Hambleton, a peer of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring who garnered extensive media coverage with his graffiti…
Read More…Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cyndi Lauper, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Though the ground floor space got its start as a German social hall, the building’s countercultural credentials go back…
Read More…Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Alex Haley, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Leroi Jones Elizabeth Blackwell: Take A Tour of Five Sites in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo where Elizabeth Blackwell…
Read More…in new tab Our plaques highlight the lives of many great African Americans who have called our neighborhood home, including artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, authors James Baldwin (Photos and Video)…
Read More…including Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Cyndi Lauper, and more. Decades later, the club is still remembered as a legendary underground cultural space promoting art of all genres: from cinema…
Read More…View more than a dozen videos from Village Preservation exploring and celebrating black history, from plaque unveiling ceremonies honoring Lorraine Hansberry, Alex Haley, James Baldwin, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to tours…
Read More…Jane Jacobs; Lorraine Hansberry to LeRoi Jones; Anais Nin to Alex Haley; Frank Stella to Frank O’Hara; painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham; and many more. CLICK…
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