Word: hoban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Phoebe Hoban...
...think you have heard the last of the mid-nineties Jean-Michel Basquiat craze that Julian Schnabel started with his film Basquiat, you are wrong. Or at least, Phoebe Hoban, author of the most recent sensationalist Basquiat biography, hopes you are. Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art retraces the steps of Basquiat's quick rise to fame in the midst of the hyper-consuming New York art world of the 1980s. After chalking up Basquiat's success to the happenstance of being in the right trendy scene at the right time and the prevalence of the art world's "reverse...
...back of the jacket cover boasts a quote from Chuck Close, the well known contemporary painter: "Hoban's book is not just the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat but an insightful and devastating portrait of the 1980s art world, its movers and shakers, as well as Basquiat's manipulators, hangers-on, and a precious few genuine friends." Perhaps if this book had been "just the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat" it would have been a more successful biography. This quote, like the biography itself, implies that "Basquiat's manipulators," et al. are, for some reason, more significant or compelling than...
...high school formal dance in Aberdeen Township, N.J., where she ate some salad and danced with her boyfriend. Six months later, Drexler, now 19 and known outside her immediate circle by the tabloid sobriquet Prom Mom, is by most accounts maintaining her outward poise. Says a friend, Tim Hoban: "She seems pretty normal...