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...criminal. Abdal Ullah, a councillor in the London borough of Tower Hamlets, where Banksy's recent mural was painted, has said: "Graffiti is a crime. It spoils the environment, makes our neighborhoods feel less safe, and costs thousands of pounds each year to clean." Banksy has, like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring did in New York decades ago, succeeded in elevating street art from a subculture to a mainstream interest...
...Johnny Depp was originally to play Bauby, but Pirates of the Caribbean came along to monopolize his time. So director Julian Schnabel, whose previous films, Basquiat and Before Night Falls, were studies of artists isolated from their surroundings, had the sensible idea to make this story -of a Frenchman and his French medical angels -in French, with Mathieu Amalric as Bauby (or, as he is called in the film, Jean Do). The result is an affecting, imaginatively told parable of human triumph over excruciating obstacles: instead of My Left Foot, this is My Left...
...foundation itself will serve as a place to illustrate the creative process-whether it be contemporary art or fashion. Arnault pointed to the highly successful collaboration of designers like Marc Jacobs with artists like Murakami as a starting point. "But we will also explain, for example, how Basquiat and Dubuffet could be seen as related," Arnault said. Artists will also be invited to create pieces that relate to the neighboring playground-a gesture, no doubt, to appeal to the kids and their beloved park...
Lunar Park is about a novelist named, not coincidentally, Bret Easton Ellis. The fictional Bret has written the same novels the real one has. The fictional Bret cavorts with celebrities ("Jean-Michel Basquiat, Molly Ringwald, John McEnroe, Ronald Reagan Jr. ..."), has numerous affairs with both sexes and is perpetually strung out on coke, tequila, heroin, cosmopolitans and crystal meth. He even has a novelist pal named Jay McInerney. (According to Ellis, McInerney was not thrilled with his cameo appearance. "Really, out of all the s_____ things that have been written about him, this is the lowest? I guess...
...certain quarters, two events in 1987 brought the decade to a symbolic close. Warhol's death in February deprived the scene of its presiding elder, the white-wigged spirit of affectless salesmanship. The collapse of the stock market eight months later gradually squeezed off buyers. By the following August, Basquiat was dead as well. How will the future regard him and his brethren? "Dying young is the easy way out," says Longo. "It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going." It pays to keep in mind something Zhou Enlai once said. On the bicentennial...