Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) (excerpt)

Excerpt of ART/new york program no. 30A: JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: An Interview, available for purchase at On this program we see a rare interview with the mercurial painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat, conducted in 1981 in his studio on Crosby Street, in SOHO. Basquiat, an internationally renowned artist as well as the enfant terrible of the 1980’s art scene, died tragically in 1988 at the age of 28. Both during his brief life and since his untimely death, stories and legends abound