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...think since the '80s that Jewish studentshave been more cohesive," says Finestone. "Thestructure and location of the Hillel has made thateasier...
...inflated survey of an inflated '80s talent...
...BOTTOM LINE: The show recapitulates the overhyping of a limited '80s talent...
First, the eulogy by the museum director, David Ross. "Who killed Basquiat, ask the artist's friends and foes alike," Ross writes. "Art dealers? The white world? Self-serving collectors? The excesses of the '80s?" And while we're at it, why not toss in the CIA, the military-industrial complex, or little green men -- oops, vertically challenged other-pigmented males -- from Mars? Perhaps some imitator of Oliver Stone is waiting in the wings to do just that: there are truckloads of Basquiat works in Beverly Hills. The plain truth -- that Basquiat killed Basquiat, that nobody but he was sticking...
...breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Basquiat had talent -- more than some of the young painters who were his contemporaries, though this may not be saying much. The trouble was that it did not develop; it was frozen by celebrity, like a deer in a jacklight beam. In the '80s Basquiat was made a cult figure by a money-glutted, corrupt and wholly promotional art-marketing system. He died in 1988, a year before the bull market collapsed and took his prices down with it. Now the same system, bruised but essentially unchanged, is trying to revalidate those prices...