Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music Classic Hollywood Pyjamarama

Pyjamarama

a young man

Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde

tracks fuelled with a sense of unity

Even money – usually an effective persuader—initially failed to move him

Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music Classic Hollywood PyjamaramaDuring the late 1970s and early 1980s, New York City was financially and socially bankrupt, but the art and music scene was flourishing. During these years, the downtown New York music scene no wave, hip hop, disco funk and club culture shaped Jean Michel Basquiat as both a musician and an artist. This catalog for a traveling exhibition explores how Basquiat's painting has parallels in his music (sampling, cut up, rapping), and takes a new look at his