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...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...

Author: By V. MICHELLE Mcewen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Idol Gossip: 'Basquiat' Skims the Surface of the Iconoclast | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

Perhaps the only person quoted that sounds like a genuine friend of Basquiat's is Jeffrey Wright, a man who never even met him. Wright, the actor who played Basquiat in Schnabel's movie, criticizes Schnabel's directing, saying, "Julian made him out as too docile and too much a victim and too passive and not as dangerous as he really was. It's about containing Basquiat. It's about aggrandizing himself through Basquiat's memory. It's really fucking barbaric. But maybe our culture can't take the real danger of Basquiat right...

Author: By V. MICHELLE Mcewen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Idol Gossip: 'Basquiat' Skims the Surface of the Iconoclast | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...meeting was the follow-up to a meeting held last week with Julian Bond, the NAACP's national chair. At the earlier meeting, Bond stressed that the NAACP is not just an organization for blacks, and encouraged people of all races to consider membership...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Incorporate First NAACP Chapter at University | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...Julian Bond was the keynote speaker at the conference, organized by the Institute of Politics (IOP), which drew about 150 students from colleges across the Northeast (Please see related story, page...

Author: By Erica Westenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Explores Minority Representation | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Since Jan. 1, 2000, falls on the Jewish Sabbath, New Year's Eve will be quiet in the western part of Jerusalem. But Bethlehem is planning a two-week ecumenical Holy Nights festival that starts Dec. 24 and ends Jan. 7, Orthodox Christmas on the Julian calendar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Will You Be...December 31, 1999? | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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