Word: jacklight
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...dwell on either. Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Basquiat had talent -- more than some of the young painters who were his contemporaries, though this may not be saying much. The trouble was that it did not develop; it was frozen by celebrity, like a deer in a jacklight beam. In the '80s Basquiat was made a cult figure by a money-glutted, corrupt and wholly promotional art-marketing system. He died in 1988, a year before the bull market collapsed and took his prices down with it. Now the same system, bruised but essentially unchanged, is trying...
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