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Boy George says new art exploring fame is ‘celebrating otherness’

The 63-year-old has created portraits of Madonna, David Bowie and Prince.

Evening Standard

NYC socialite claims she’s being extorted over a $30million painting. It’s just the latest in her scandal-ridden life

Exclusive: New York socialite Libbie Mugrabi says she is being extorted over a Jean-Michel Basquiat masterpiece worth $30 million.

The Independent UK

‘I got offered a gram of cocaine for a painting’: is Slawn art’s latest enfant terrible?

His critics call him a talentless chancer, but the 23-year-old street artist from Lagos has found success through brand collaborations, Saatchi backing – and manifesting his goal of becoming the ‘biggest artist in the world’

The Guardian - UK

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"Andy used creativity as his therapy" – how to channel creative intelligence like Andy Warhol

Dr Phillip Romero, friend of Andy Warhol, shares the thinking and top tips behind his Warhol-inspired book

Creative Bloq

H&M Honors Jean-Michel Basquiat's Legacy via an Exclusive Collaboration With Who Decides War

H&M joins forces with the estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Who Decides War for a collaboration featuring the artist's work.

Fashion Times

‘I’m a fan of chaos’: Blondie’s Chris Stein on Bowie, Debbie Harry and 50 years in rock’n’roll

In his candid new memoir, the guitarist talks about the glory period of Parallel Lines and how addiction and loss altered his life

The Guardian - UK

Monet Painting Fetches $35 Million At New York Auction

A Monet sold for nearly $35 million at auction Wednesday evening, Sotheby's said, marking a solid start to New York's spring art sales.

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Art unlocked: critics on the one work that explains the great artists, from Turner to Basquiat

Expressionism, sculpture, video: the art world is so vast and varied it can be difficult to know where to start, even with its biggest names. Our writers suggest the one piece that can help you understand masters old and new

The Guardian - UK

Capturing the Solar Eclipse: Meet the Fashion Photographers Obsessed with Sunglasses

As we get caught up in total eclipse 2024 fever we explore the intersection of celestial phenomena and fashion photography through the stylish lens of sunglasses.

Fashion Times

Radiant by Brad Gooch review – art with heart

The life and untimely death of Keith Haring, whose work burst with vitality and warmth

The Guardian - UK

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s LA-made work goes on show at Gagosian

‘Made on Market Street’ at Gagosian in Beverly Hills is the first show to present works made by the young artist between 1982 and 1984

Wallpaper

Travis Kelce is Producing a New Documentary on Jean-Michel Basquiat

Is there anything this 3-time Super Bowl champ can't do?!

Marie Claire

Polaroid launches a unique collection inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat painting

The Polaroid Now has been given a vibrant makeover courtesy of the artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Digital Camera World

First Thing: Biden and Trump breeze through Super Tuesday while Haley wins surprise Vermont victory

The presumptive nominees took shots at each other, while reports said Nikki Haley is set to drop out the race. Plus, UN experts condemn Israeli ‘massacre’

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‘It was a perfect match’: how Basquiat found inspiration in California

The artist was mostly known for his work in New York yet in the early 80s, he found a new kind of artistic output out west

The Guardian - UK

Instagram is vital to art and museum culture, say gallery founders

Owners of Moco, which is opening a space in London, say platform can help bring in younger audiences

Wallpaper

‘Rapper’s Deluxe’: 50 years of hip-hop history in one Phaidon book

‘Rapper’s Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made The World’ by Dr Todd Boyd explores the genre’s impact on contemporary culture

The Guardian - UK

Design news: style after a mastectomy, a pop art funfair and a skate ramp at Chelsea

A new book about women in architecture, the fashion collective making art out of clothes and a ferris wheel designed by Jean-Michel Basquiat

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The Guardian - UK

You want to sue Madonna for being late on stage? She’s an artist not a service industry worker

Some music fans seem afflicted by a sense of entitlement, and to have forgotten inconvenience used to be part of the gig-going experience. Mind you, with today’s ticket prices, is it any wonder?

The Guardian - UK

In brief: The Promised Party; Normal Women; Life’s Work – review

A racy memoir of an arty youth; a spiky satire about female employment; and the writer of NYPD Blue on living with Alzheimer’s

The Independent UK

Luna Luna review: Lost carnival designed by Basquiat, Dali and Hockney is the art event of the year

The Luna Luna fairground, which first opened in Germany in 1987, has been resurrected by Drake in Los Angeles after decades forgotten in shipping containers. Kevin EG Perry explores a magical exhibition featuring playful, immersive work from some of the greatest artists of the 20th century

Fortune

Andy Warhol's Factory made a fortune off other people's work. Now desperate artists are accusing generative AI of supercharging that model

Warhol once said "Art is anything you can get away with.” Will Midjourney get away with training its image-generating AI on thousands of artworks?

The Independent UK

Former CEO at center of fake Basquiats scandal countersues museum, claiming he is being scapegoated

A former executive director of a Florida museum which was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings is filing counterclaims against the museum

Evening Standard

Fancy buying a Basquiat for £10K? The world's greatest art forger can help you out

David Henty's forgeries of great works of art sell for a fraction of the price: in legit galleries. Can you spot the difference?

Guitar World

“Prince liked the band. He would come see us. He would mysteriously appear and disappear, which always made me mad – ‘Damn it!’” How Vernon Reid’s expressionist shredding juiced Living Colour and won fans in Prince and the Rolling Stones

From Vivid to Time’s Up to Stain, Vernon Reid’s radical solos and effects experimentalism set Living Colour apart from every other guitar band in the grunge era

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