Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Sun
25
Sun 25 Oct 12:00 PM

Palace Nova Eastend: ExiMax
General Admission
Unclassified 15+
95 Mins
October
Thu 15 Oct

Sun 25 Oct

Unlike Vincent van Gogh, the incomparable artist and iconoclast Jean-Michel Basquiat lived just long enough to reap the benefits of his street art-born, gallery-bound creative practice, which ignited an eternal flame during the more-is-more era of ’80s Manhattan. Hanging with the likes of Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, alongside pop royalty including Grace Jones, Debbie Harry and Madonna, Basquiat made a fortune. But his ongoing battle with heroin addiction would cut short his astonishingly accomplished life at only 27 years. With a loss this cruel, mythologising takes hold, blurring fact and fictions both external and self-spun. The editor of Oscar-nominated Perfect Neighbor (2025) Viridiana Lieberman and co-director Quinn Whitney Wilson’s equal parts energising and elegiac documentary cuts through the noise to reveal who Basquiat truly was. With unrivalled access to the family archives and deeply personal insights from the late artist’s sisters Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, Jean-Michel Basquiat is priceless.