Artnews has a fascinating story by Bob Nikas outlining the aversion among museums to acquiring Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work. Despite the assumption that museums bestow the legitimacy that makes for…
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Work of renowned Italian artist goes under the hammer in South Africa Earlier this year an unsigned painting by Lucia Fontano, who in the 60s was one of the…
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This paper approaches Basquiat’s oeuvre through the anti-humanist lens of afro-pessimist theory. I interpret the dialectic of black positionality and black power operative in his work through the relation between…
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