The New York Times Magazine: New Art, New Money Basquiat Issue

An issue of The New York Times Magazine featuring Jean Michel Basquiat, published in 1985.

• Basquiat article by Cathleen McGuigan.
• Photo by Lizzie Himmel.
• New York: The New York Times Company, 1985.
• This February 10th, 1985 edition is famously entitled “New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist."

This much iconic cover photo features Basquiat at his most critical turning point - one in which, the grandeur and height of his success is brought into marked contradiction by an expression defined by a wary, slightly tired defiance; as if he's already begun to perceive all the further judgements and trappings of a notorious 1980's New York art world - a pivotal force in the artist's meteoric rise and fall. A definitive and much historical Basquiat collectible made for any dedicated collector of the artist.