JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT at the BROAD MUSEUM 

When I first met Samo he was very young and homeless, Lower East Side Artist. I recall smoking joints, followed by a very deep conversations in my parked car and me saying to him, "You are sure to hit it big!" I whispered that into his ear when we hugged at his big show at the Whitney Biennial. At the start, It was obvious to everyone he had the magic. That dude really worked it hard, Constantly Creating Original Art. He was a very possessed, Artist Exploding... When we first met he was painting T-shirts, selling them on the street, then SNAP Whitney show and then a big loft in the heart of SoHo. The last time the two of us hung out togeather was in his BIG loft - LOTS OF ART EVERYWHERE and many Talked for hours about poetry-art-the sounds of letters. The last thing I said to Samo as I was leaving his loft was, "Dude, I lov U He smiled.

BASQUIAT IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE TO NO LIMITS WHEN IT COMES TO ART!! FREE YOUR MIND AND PUT WHATEVER'S ON YOUR MIND DOWN ON PAPER!!! 🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨

History will remember The great JMB as one the greatest artists of the twentieth century.He continues to speak for a generation of people.I miss him dearly.

How does one say well said. By far the greatest presentation of his paintings i have seen via cameras. ThankYou, James, forever !

Thank you so much. Basquiat is one of my favourites. I appreciate the silent walk through as I feel his paintings speak enough so much for themselves.

love that camera zoom sound

This is my favorite Basquiat museum video solely for the lack of talking and the way the camera shows how you're looking over and through the pieces.

Bravo! Great that you held on the paintings and offered extreme close-ups delivering a true and thorough walk-through.

Heroic close-ups

Basquiat is on the same as Matisse , Picasso , Van Gogh and Rothko . a true genius . James knows there is no need for words .

Just what I needed - some Basquiat❤️. Thanks so much.

Thank you James and Kate for the opportunity to quietly reflect on this incredible work.

Merci pour vos reportages -tous merveilleux, incomparables-, et celui-ci en particulier. On a l'impression de visiter les expositions en votre compagnie, en suivant votre regard. Que de découvertes grâce à vous !! Congrats from Paris.

Loved the close ups!!!!!

Fantastic up close viewing of his paintings. Thank you.

Absolutely amazing footage✨

thank you, every well made video capturing details of some of his work. I need to them in person, but this was great

Man this was an excellent video. Thanks so much for posting! Oh and getting up close to the works🤘🏼

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I REALLY appreciated the carefully detailed examinations of each piece at a snail's pace. I'm gonna watch this one over and over. Thank you, James. Thank you, Kate. ...and thank you, Jerry?

Magnifique on voit très bien les détailles des œuvres, merci.

. This is a dream come true to see this work so precisely. Thank you

Truly great unexpected exploration Loren - great job - so many I'd never seen before. The slow moving revealing details especially invaluable for me providing new insights. I knew Jean-Michel way back & attended several of his early openings in SoHo including Mary Boone & the collaboration one with Andy at Shafrazi., etc. I did my own 30 min cable TV play largely about him in 1996 then shown dozens of times on MNN with a very savvy black art critic playing him - & now on Vimeo still gathering new audiences. ( Bill Rabinovitch Vs Julian Schnabel ).

Thank you

Prefer walking and talking but nice to see. Kate and James, thanks.

Nice! I got excited for a second that his exhibit was back in NY. I saw it in 2018 at the Brant Foundation. I tried to capture as much as I could. I like how you spent time with the pieces!♥️

WOW ! This was GREAT.

Thank you.

The frying pan with the eggs in it seems to me to be a reference to a popular commercial at that time "this is your brain on drugs" as the top of the character's head is missing.

Thank you Kate.

Thanks Kalm!

Mucha Gracias. There is also a Basquiat exhibit at the MFA Boston until July 25th.

Gratidão, bela apresentação do artista de expressão única.

James I have subscribed your channel long befor COVID 19. I love your raw videos without any unnecessary make ups. Best wishes dear

JMB never ceases to amaze me. It's like the guy would just open his skull and let whatever random thoughts/color combos/emotions fly out and hit the canvas or door or wall or refrigerator or whatever was in front of him. And the most amazing thing is...IT WORKS!!!! How is it possible to ride a wild, mean, biting, bucking mustang for more than thirty seconds and live to tell the tail? I mean...ASBESTOS next to Samson....WTF????? Thanks for this as always. Hope you enjoyed your trip to the Left Coast.

I'm hour from The Broad, if the show is still up I'm going. It's Basquiat after all. Wow. Cool.

Great exhibit

and beautiful

Liked the quiet stroll for a change, OWEN - VVI also does quiet art strolls that I enjoy too, his are completely anonymous. I like when you give us anecdotes but dislike the sometimes "platitudes", which are inevitable! One word you won't pronounce is one word that won't be held against you! Keep on talking James, I prefer platitudes to muteness!

I love da Vinci's dissection of the human body influence on Basquiat.

I'm glad it's not every time, but god dammit you took away my ears forcing my eyes to compensate and I'm better for it. I did have some anxiety upon realizing i would never know which one of these paintings was the biggest. Never is a long time, James.

Im left speechless too. Great stuff!!! James, your a master with the camera too. Thank you Kate, and James. You two made it possible.

necrophilia by the the $$$ great art & great video James & Kate but necrophilia every udder day

thx👍

That Jerry is a bad influence! Really missed the usual warmth of your dialog. Great, great show, nonetheless! Much thanks, James, and Kate.

this let you into his mind that what art is expressing of the soul

Genio !

He allowed himself so much feedom to be inspired by anything and everything

a man that needed to express how he feel how he think how he see life this is deep very deep

Nice! I went and noticed more people looking at each other and taking selfies rather than the art. But that’s LA for ya

I was looking forward to your thoughts and commentary!

( ) ... & as always thx u k8!

This. Was. Awesome. Like I was there. Checking on flights this weekend. Is this a special exhibition or part of the museums collection? Thanks!

Paolozzi did it first. Genius none the less. great vid ty kate

I didn't realize that the Skull painting was that huge.

a rare original.

a man in pain a man that was traumatized and dark

Nice review 👍 Not paid much attention to his work before . Quite like the unpredictable randomness of it...sorta as if he's done away with notebook or sketchbook ideas and just gone straight to a big canvas or other surface and opened up his mind...a bit like unplanned graffitti or something.

Wow 10:16 big table ,big chairs !

What kind of painting medium does Basquiat use especially those lines? Oil bar, oil pastel? Do they ever get dry? I know oil pastel (kinda like crayon) never really dries, but oil bar does. So curious! Thanks, James and Kate!

James Kalm and his spy glasses.

😮

Does anyone know the name of the work presented at 10:42?

Logical absurdist phenomenology par excellence

!!!!

so this what he would channel to make art

🙂.

10:41 this is so cool for my social media #cringetopia

My dude, you did not have to get that close to the Basquiats, you were literally like over the ropes practically breathing on it.

I wonder is there a clear coat to protect these works ???...

no talking?????????????????

These are all replicas right

And if these works were by an unrenoun artist, they wouldn't sell at a theft store. Before Basquiat became famous, he couldn't even trade them for a hotdog

this make sense he got hit by a car near death whatever messed up his mind and boosted his creativity interesting 🤔

Jean Michel Basquiat c' est pour le Trash Basquiat ?

The Celebration of Mediocrity Why? Why? Why? Then? Death 💀

I don't know. I think the establishment used him. He's not a painter. There is the spirit of expressionism there. But a lot of it is garbage. Of course he had no time to develop so.....

Looks like bunch of drawings made by bunch of 3 year old kids.

This is all crap