“He was the most financially successful Black visual artist in history and — depending on whether you listened to his admirers or detractors — either a genius, an idiot savant, or an overblown, overpriced fraud.”
“Basquiat has absorbed every trick in contemporary painting's book at an astoundingly early age. He's so precocious he's practically old before his time”
“What I missed immediately was the figure of Jean himself, one of the most beautiful young men — with one of the most original minds — I have ever met”
‘Rammellzee: Racing for Thunder’ can’t help but summon nostalgia for a time when the city was rougher, more raw, its public culture infused with outer-borough grassroots brilliance and improvisational futurism instead of corporate programming
