Jean-Michel Basquiat in Gray with Michael Holman and Shannon Dawson (Konk), seen in Sara Driver’s Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat Photo: Nick Taylor (Gray), courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
Anthony McCarten’s The Collaboration (currently on Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club) with Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Paul Bettany as Andy Warhol, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah takes liberties with time while Sara Driver’s inspiring Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2018) captures the artist and the scene around him through on-camera interviews with Jim Jarmusch, Carlo McCormick, Fred Brathwaite (aka Fab 5 Freddy), Sur Rodney (Sur), Glenn O’Brien, Kenny Scharf, Lee Quiñones, Patricia Field, Jamie Nares, Lucy Sante, Al Diaz, Michael Holman, Jennifer Jazz, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Mary-Ann Monforton, Bud Kliment, Felice Rosser, and Alexis Adler, who says “If we don't tell the history, then others will, who weren't there and don't know the truth.
Anthony McCarten’s The Collaboration (currently on Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club) with Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Paul Bettany as Andy Warhol, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah takes liberties with time while Sara Driver’s inspiring Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2018) captures the artist and the scene around him through on-camera interviews with Jim Jarmusch, Carlo McCormick, Fred Brathwaite (aka Fab 5 Freddy), Sur Rodney (Sur), Glenn O’Brien, Kenny Scharf, Lee Quiñones, Patricia Field, Jamie Nares, Lucy Sante, Al Diaz, Michael Holman, Jennifer Jazz, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Mary-Ann Monforton, Bud Kliment, Felice Rosser, and Alexis Adler, who says “If we don't tell the history, then others will, who weren't there and don't know the truth.
- 1/27/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In its best moments, Downtown 81 achieves a rare state of transcendence, wiping away the mists of time and making the Manhattan that existed in 1981 come alive once again. Too bad those moments are few and far between. Written by Glenn O'Brien, directed by Edo Bertoglio, and starring Jean Michel Basquiat in his only dramatic performance, Downtown 81 is structured around 24 hours in the life of an artist who gets locked out of his apartment and then spends the day rambling around the city, wondering what to do with his life. The narrative is loosely assembled, with all the dialogue apparently added and synched in post-production. To be kind, I'll note the low, low budget, and pass on to what holds the greatest...
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- 7/6/2015
- Screen Anarchy
On Friday night, HBO released Jay Z's "Picasso Baby" video, which was famously filmed while Hova performed the song for six straight hours for a crowd of art world residents, regular celebrities, and cool-looking civilians at Chelsea's Pace Gallery last month. Among the more recognizable names and faces in the final cut are Marina Abramović, Judd Apatow, Marilyn Minter, George Condo, Alan Cumming, Fab Five Freddy, Jim Jarmusch, Jemima Kirke, Jenna Lyons, Glenn O'Brien, Rosie Pérez, Cynthia Rowley, Wale, Michael K. Williams, Adam Driver, Dustin Yellin, actual Picasso baby Diana Widmaier Picasso, and our own Jerry Saltz. Everyone seemed to have a decent — if occasionally awkward — time, but the most interesting part of the 8-minute production is probably listening to the voiceover of Jay comparing concerts and performance art, and watching Abramović's genuine enthusiasm for the project throughout.
- 8/3/2013
- by Caroline Bankoff
- Vulture
Jay-z has a long-standing habit of name-checking the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (see: "Most Kingz," "3 Kings," "Illest Motherf--ker Alive," "Ain't I," etc.), but it's on "Magna Carta Holy Grail" that the rapper takes his obsession with the downtown New York icon to new heights.
There are many references on the album, but none are more explicit than on "Picasso Baby," when Jay-z drops the subtleties and simply raps, "It ain't hard to tell, I'm the new Jean-Michel." Jay -- who recently purchased another Basquiat painting from Swizz Beatz (see above) -- also discusses Basquiat at length in his memoir-cum-lyrics-explainer "Decoded," describing the artist as "hip-hop when hip-hop was still in its cradle." Here's more from the illuminative excerpt:
One Basquiat print I own is called Charles the First—it’s about Charlie Parker, the jazz pioneer who died young of a heroin overdose, like Basquiat. In the corner of the painting are the words,...
There are many references on the album, but none are more explicit than on "Picasso Baby," when Jay-z drops the subtleties and simply raps, "It ain't hard to tell, I'm the new Jean-Michel." Jay -- who recently purchased another Basquiat painting from Swizz Beatz (see above) -- also discusses Basquiat at length in his memoir-cum-lyrics-explainer "Decoded," describing the artist as "hip-hop when hip-hop was still in its cradle." Here's more from the illuminative excerpt:
One Basquiat print I own is called Charles the First—it’s about Charlie Parker, the jazz pioneer who died young of a heroin overdose, like Basquiat. In the corner of the painting are the words,...
- 7/12/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
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- 12/8/2011
- by M&C
- Monsters and Critics
Setting Eric Lavallee's "American New Wave 25: Class of 2010" at Ioncinema alongside Filmmaker's annual roundup of "25 New Faces of Independent Film," you'll find very little overlap but plenty of multi-tasking resourcefulness. Also in the new Summer 2010 issue of Filmmaker: Brandon Harris talking with Gaspar Noé about Enter the Void, Jason Guerrasio's interview with Amir Bar-Lev (The Tillman Story), Lance Weiler on transmedia and Anthony Kaufman: "Why Won't Kickstarter and Twitter Save Indie Film?" In its tech section, Filmmaker staff and friends recommend apps and Roberto Quezada-Dardon evaluates the latest HDSLRs.
"Tamra Davis's documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child might make you weep (it did me) and might help you better appreciate a painter whose work matters enormously in the history of late-twentieth-century art." Amy Taubin for Artforum: "It achieves these ends largely though an abundance of footage of its subject at work and with a long interview that...
"Tamra Davis's documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child might make you weep (it did me) and might help you better appreciate a painter whose work matters enormously in the history of late-twentieth-century art." Amy Taubin for Artforum: "It achieves these ends largely though an abundance of footage of its subject at work and with a long interview that...
- 7/25/2010
- MUBI
It might have been announced just today, but this deal was probably completed several weeks back, Arthouse Films (small NYC-based distributor of docu films) has picked up the rights to Tamra Davis’s film Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Arthouse plans a summer release, probably right after Julian Schnabel preems Miral in Cannes. - It might have been announced just today, but this deal was probably completed several weeks back, Arthouse Films (small NYC-based distributor of docu films) has picked up the rights to Tamra Davis’s film Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Arthouse plans a summer release, probably right after Julian Schnabel preems Miral in Cannes. The Sundance premiered film on the artist, was actually filmed two decades back. Davis (as you can grasp from the trailer below) was on the camera lense end of an interview with the artist, a couple of years before his death -...
- 3/24/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Last Saturday night in downtown Manhattan, the art world indulged in a "meta" mutual lovefest in two locations, a few blocks apart, in parallel time. Rob Pruitt, famed for his Andy Warhol–inspired canvases of glittering panda bears, was signing copies of his new monograph, Pop Touched Me. Covering the walls of Gavin Brown's Enterprise gallery with a couple hundred autographs of art-world royalty, Pruitt offered a historical survey, and evidence of his title. Off and on for the last two decades, he's gotten art notables and others to put their signatures on one-by-three-foot pieces of raw canvas with a big black marker. One of the non-art signatures is that of the former president of France Jacques Chirac, noting the date as 1989. Almost all of the rest are art-celebrity scribbles, which fill the standard-size canvases with an unpredictable spatial variety. One is particularly extravagant: gallery owner Tony Shafrazi's signature stands...
- 3/1/2010
- Vanity Fair
Under the artistic direction of designer Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton has evolved into a luxury empire that not only encompasses lavish fashion, but experiments in art, and architecture. In "Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion, and Architecture," the history of Vuitton's world is examined by fashion and art historians, scholars, and journalists via essays and hundreds of color photos of Lv products, ads, and other sweet monogrammed goodness. Here is a taste from this vibrant anthology.
Lauded for his leather goods since 1854, Louis Vuitton's handiwork has stood as a symbol of wealth, charm, and prosperity; His classic monogrammed Speedy bag becoming the most famous indicator of a jet-setting lifestyle. Fast forward to the 21st century, under the artistic direction of designer Marc Jacobs, Lv has evolved into a luxury empire that not only encompasses lavish fashion, but experiments in art, and architecture, as well. In Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion, and Architecture, the...
Lauded for his leather goods since 1854, Louis Vuitton's handiwork has stood as a symbol of wealth, charm, and prosperity; His classic monogrammed Speedy bag becoming the most famous indicator of a jet-setting lifestyle. Fast forward to the 21st century, under the artistic direction of designer Marc Jacobs, Lv has evolved into a luxury empire that not only encompasses lavish fashion, but experiments in art, and architecture, as well. In Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion, and Architecture, the...
- 8/3/2009
- Fast Company
Glenn O'Brien says he had plenty of reasons to quit after a year and a half as editorial director of Brant Publications, which puts out Interview, Art in America and Antiques. "They're not paying anybody -- even people under contract," O'Brien told Page Six yesterday. "They owe everybody -- retouchers, printers, photographers, writers . . . It's been horrible for months. You don't want to assign stories if the writers won't get paid." O'Brien, who was Barneys' creative director of advertising for 10 years, has nothing nice to say about Peter Brant, who owns the magazines, or his son,...
- 6/11/2009
- NYPost.com
Musicians Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, and T.I. are among the 10 Most Stylish Men in America as chosen by GQ Magazine and profiled in their March 2009 issue. Also in the Top 10 are music producer Mark Ronson, hotelier Andre Balazs, clothing store owner Sid Mashburn, GQ "Style Guy" Glenn O'Brien, artist Ed Ruscha, photgrapher Alexi Lubomirski, and actor/musician Jason Schwartzman.
Timberlake, who claims he brought "Sexyback" in 2006, did bring three-piece suits back to pop music. But in the issue, Timberlake says he prefers his vintage graphic tees when out and about in L.A. "I used to have an amazing collection," he says. "But Jess [his girlfriend, Jessica Biel] and my cousin Rachael have pretty much grabbed them all." Timberlake, who recently showed the Fall 2009 collection at New York Fashion Week of his line William Rast, also tells the magazine that the inspiration for his fashion comes from his banker dad.
Ronson wears the...
Timberlake, who claims he brought "Sexyback" in 2006, did bring three-piece suits back to pop music. But in the issue, Timberlake says he prefers his vintage graphic tees when out and about in L.A. "I used to have an amazing collection," he says. "But Jess [his girlfriend, Jessica Biel] and my cousin Rachael have pretty much grabbed them all." Timberlake, who recently showed the Fall 2009 collection at New York Fashion Week of his line William Rast, also tells the magazine that the inspiration for his fashion comes from his banker dad.
Ronson wears the...
- 2/19/2009
- icelebz.com
'In The city, it is only acceptable for a man to wear flip-flops if he has just come from a pedicure and he's still damp. But seriously, folks, flip-flops are for the beach or maybe for washing the car or spaniel. They are not the next big thing. They are the last sad thing on the road to stylistic surrender," writes GQ's Glenn O'Brien.
Now We don't want to be telling the Victoria's Secret folks how to run their amazing business, but it wouldn't hurt if they took some thin, snazzy, young models and put them into Queen Victoria's bloomers.
Now We don't want to be telling the Victoria's Secret folks how to run their amazing business, but it wouldn't hurt if they took some thin, snazzy, young models and put them into Queen Victoria's bloomers.
- 7/29/2008
- by By LIZ SMITH
- NYPost.com
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