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About Writing The Future: Basquiat And The Hip-Hop
Review Features brilliantly hued images of work by both Basquiat and some of his contemporaries. -- Helen Holmes ― Observer New Review features Basquiat’s works in painting, sculpture, drawing, video, music and fashion, alongside works by his contemporaries―and sometimes collaborators―A-One, ERO, Fab 5 Freddy, Futura, Keith Haring, Kool Koor, LA2, Lady Pink, Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee and Toxic. Throughout the 1980s, these artists fueled new directions in fine art, design and music, reshaping the predominantly white art world and driving the now-global popularity of hip-hop culture. -- Editors ― ARTFIXdaily A revolution unto himself, Jean-Michel Basquiat exploded into the art world at a time when another revolution was in full-swing; and he enthusiastically embraced hip-hop aesthetics and politics as influences. -- Ken Scrudato ― Blackbook Writing the Future' differentiates itself as the first major exhibition to contextualize Basquiat’s work in relation to his peers associated with hip-hop culture. -- Chadd Scott ― Forbes: Media ...to leaf through this prodigy’s oeuvre intermingled with photos of what he called “just … you know, my friends and stuff”; of their tags brightening storefronts and subway cars, of the boomboxes and leather jackets and reference books they at once desecrated and elevated, is to hold in your hands the record of a place and a time and a togetherness we can only hope one day to experience again. -- Lauren Christensen ― New York Times In these flattened times, Writing the Future conveys motion. The book, a companion to a suspended exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, is about Basquiat, his contemporaries, and early hip-hop culture, but it’s also about the movements and rhythms of New York City―'the work of the subway writers became as optically and optimally omnipresent as the Manhattan skyline,' Greg Tate writes. And in its dynamic blend of art, history, and analysis, it has a movement of its own. -- Dan Adler ― Vanity Fair Munsell’s argument isn’t about tracing Basquiat’s origins as an artist, or repeating a standard narrative about how graffiti and street art were formative experiences leading up to his masterpieces on canvas. Instead, Munsell makes a point of anchoring his complete career in this context. [...] For 'Writing the Future,' Munsell and co-curator Greg Tate place Basquiat’s now familiar and extraordinarily expensive paintings in and among work that has largely been ignored by blue-chip galleries and auction houses. -- Damon Krukowski ― Art In America Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation?, sought to contextualize Basquiat’s work in an art and culture scene of his co-conspirators who really meant to remake the world they had inherited. -- Hrag Vartanian ― Hyperallergic ...Feel like the most important exhibition on Basquiat you’ll ever see, and he’s just one artist among the show’s dozen. [...] It’s wildly evocative and transporting ― holistic, immersive, experiential, and far greater than the sum of its 120-plus parts. -- Murray Whyte ― Boston Globe [An] immersive cultural anthropology, weaving together art, music, and the vibrant rhythms of the city that spawned it all -- Murray Whyte ― Boston Globe This American artist powerfully captured the refracted, outsider energy of rap, punk, graffiti, and hip-hop, expressive forms moving in from the fringes. “Writing the Future” places Basquiat at the center of these movements, and is the first exhibition to look at his work in the context of hip-hop culture. -- Joel Lobenthal ― Airmail [T]here’s more to this exhibition than putting Basquiat in context. It’s about a bigger phenomenon ― a struggle for visibility that spilled over into hyper-visibility. It addresses a key period in Black creativity and urban youth culture, an extended moment too little understood by a mainstream culture that consigns it to the margins even as it swims in the very conditions it created. -- Sebastian Smee ― Washington Post ...Enig
