Tag: a ticket to Africa
Episode 2 – Basquiat and the Black Kings of America
/ Podcasts / Basquiat, a ticket to Africa The only black to break into the very white and closed world of contemporary New York art, Jean-Michel Basquiat decides in many…
Episode 3 – Basquiat’s trip to Africa
/ Podcasts / Basquiat, a ticket to Africa In 1986, the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat finally had the opportunity to travel to Africa. His dealer is organizing an exhibition for him…
Episode 4 – Paris-Abidjan, the Basquiat footprint
/ Podcasts / Basquiat, a ticket to Africa After Abidjan, it was in Paris in 1988 that Jean-Michel Basquiat met the Ivorians Auguste Mimi Errol and Ouattara Watts, then living…
Episode 5 – At Basquiat’s School
/ Podcasts / Basquiat, a ticket to Africa What echo do the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat arouse among future artists who study at the School of Fine Arts in Abidjan?…
Episode 1 – Basquiat, the childhood of a painter
/ Podcasts / Basquiat, a ticket to Africa To probe Jean-Michel Basquiat’s relations with the African continent, let’s first go back to the artist’s trajectory: a return to his New…
Basquiat, a ticket to Africa • Trailer
On August 12, 1988, Jean-Michel Basquiat was found dead in his apartment in New York. Overdose. In his business, tell his friends, a plane ticket for Abidjan. The most famous…