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The New Miami Restaurants Reshaping the City’s Culinary Scene

New York Observer 22 Jan 2026
And this is just the beginning ... The vibrant dining room, which nods to the surrounding creative neighborhood, is adorned with pieces from the co-owners’ private collection, including works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Takashi Murakami and Richard Prince ... .
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Channeling the primeval: Why Matthew Marcot paints as if art remains a matter of survival

The Villager 21 Jan 2026
The conversation around Marcot’s work inevitably invokes Jean-Michel Basquiat, not as shorthand, but as lineage ... The conversation around Marcot’s work inevitably invokes Jean-Michel Basquiat, not as shorthand, but as lineage.
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In “Faces and Landscapes of Home,” Hauser & Wirth Brings Giacometti Back to Stampa

New York Observer 19 Jan 2026
/ 19 5/8 x 24 in ... Sign Up ... In the past, it has shown Gerhard Richter’s overpainted vistas of the nearby Alps and displayed artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat that he produced when he stayed at the hunting lodge of his agent Bruno Bischofberger ... Photo ... .
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In New York, Sotheby’s Repositions Itself as a Cultural Destination

New York Observer 08 Dec 2025
Also in the exhibition is Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (1982), which sold in 2017 for a record-shattering $110.5 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for an American artist.
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The Aerosol Awakening: Shepard Fairey On Street Art’s Infiltration of Miami Art Week

New York Observer 05 Dec 2025
Sign Up ... For the artists, the trajectory from street to gallery isn’t entirely new—Jean-Michel Basquiat made the leap from tagging with street artist Al Diaz as SAMO in downtown Manhattan to blue-chip galleries before his death in 1988 ... .
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Will the Latest Basquiat Biopic Hew to History? Al Diaz Has His Doubts

New York Observer 01 Dec 2025
Diaz, now 66, is the other half of one of the most influential creative partnerships in downtown New York history—the graffiti duo that became the launchpad for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s meteoric rise to art world stardom.
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Utamaro’s ‘Fukagawa in Snow’ Led Sotheby’s HK$688M Sale of Works from the Okada Museum of Art

New York Observer 24 Nov 2025
Courtesy Sotheby's ... Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter. Sign Up. Thank you for signing up! ... You can opt out anytime ... Photo ... The night’s star lot—Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Crowns (Peso Neto)—went to Hua bidding for an Asian client for $48.3 million ... .
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Inside the November Marquee Auctions: What the Market’s Biggest Week Really Revealed

New York Observer 21 Nov 2025
Photo by Julian Cassady Photography, Courtesy of Sotheby's and Alive ... Sign Up ... Basquiat, Cattelan, Rothko, Hockney, Monet—major names all performed well ... A conceptual icon like Cattelan’s America barely registered, while Basquiat soared ... .
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A Juvenile Triceratops and Francis Bacon Heat Up Phillips’s $67.3 Million Evening Sale

New York Observer 20 Nov 2025
Photo ... Meanwhile, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Exercise (1984), a loosely composed, surreal tangle of hallucination and paint, achieved $3,852,000 after a $3-4 million estimate. Another Basquiat from 1982 followed close behind, selling for $1,225,500 ... .
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Samsung Art Store Launches New Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat Collections (Samsung Electronics America Inc)

Public Technologies 19 Nov 2025
Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, who were close friends and contemporaries in New York's vibrant 1980s art scene ... Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Untitled (Two Heads on Gold)", 1982 ... Jean-Michel Basquiat Collection.
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Sotheby’s Shatters Records at Its Breuer Debut as a $236.4M Klimt Leads the $706M Evening Sale

New York Observer 19 Nov 2025
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1981 Crowns (Peso Neto), which exceeded even its ambitious $35-45 million estimate, already the highest ever assigned to a work from this pivotal year, achieving $48.3 million ... First exhibited at Basquiat’s inaugural U.S ... ’64 ... .
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The Best Sparkling Wines to Gift this Holiday Season

New York Observer 19 Nov 2025
Dom Pérignon Jean-Michel Basquiat Customized ... Dom Pérignon Jean-Michel Basquiat. This stunning 2015 vintage pays homage to world-renowned New York City graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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