As a kid, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was a junior member of the Brooklyn Museum, which he used to visit with his mother and where he got a globalist view of art history that would provide fuel for his own later painting. He’s back at the museum...
Lire la suiteWASHINGTON — The Postal Servicesaid Wednesday that it had no plans to reissue a stamp honoring Maya Angelou that features a quotation from a book by another author. The quotation — “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has...
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In the 1980s, Janette Beckman, an expat punk photographer from London, amassed a portfolio of burgeoning New York rap acts like the Cold Crush Brothers, Big Daddy Kane and Public Enemy. It was a labor of love for Ms. Beckman, who had visited New York...
Lire la suiteLittle wonder that we are transfixed; that the faces in Pulman’s images ripple with such emotion. We are free, if “free” is the right word, to beam stimulation or distraction into our brains at any moment. Via the screens we carry – and will soon be wearing...
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