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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...
...years since his death, Warhol has floated over the art world like a slightly sinister saint. Scads of artists have grown bold from his example. Warhol's artful packaging of the world--and himself--made way for the media-fueled fame of such '80s artists as Julian Schnabel and David Salle; for the self-conscious works of Cindy Sherman and Sherrie Levine. Since then, artists across the globe have churned out paeans to corporate logos, toilet seats, detergent boxes and endlessly on. The best known of them--Jeff Koons in America, he of the polychromed statue of Michael Jackson...
...that Zacharias began so auspiciously--his first movement sounded more like a walk in the park than the heartfelt and dignified statements of Schnabel, Kempff or Fleisher (though, to be fair, he stoked some embers in the cadenza that turned to flame in the third movement.) And not that the Tanglewood audience had attended so many concerts--they clapped sheepishly after the first movement, and many elderly among the crowd could be heard talking, giggling or loudly removing the plastic wrap from hard candies during the performance...
...painting have not yet been accorded the critical attention Andy Warhol's drew, is playing the pop icon in a film about painter Jean Michel Basquiat, a Warhol protaga. And what an art-ridden affair it is. The film was written and is being directed by painter Julian Schnabel. Art collector DENNIS HOPPER plays collector-dealer Bruno Bischofberger, who marketed Basquiat to the world. Only Jeffrey Wright, who plays Basquiat, has no art-world ties. "This is the first nondocumentary film about an American artist," says Hopper, who owns paintings by both Basquiat and Schnabel. "It's important...
Generally, things made closer to the present fared much worse, and for quite a number of recent darlings of the market, such as Julian Schnabel and Andy / Warhol, the silence was funereal. The surprise, perhaps, is not that a Warhol made only $190,000; the prices of Old Silverwig's work have been going downhill like a runaway bobsled. The true mystery is who on earth could have actually wanted to own a 31-ft. pastiche of Leonardo's Last Supper overlaid with green camouflage patterns. Is some Christian fundamentalist group planning to open a restaurant...