Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop culture.

2020年11月3日 · Contemporary accounts tend to mythologize the brief life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who rocketed from New York City’s underground graffiti culture to worldwide acclaim before dying of a heroin...

2017年10月17日 · This is the prescient opening line of writer Glenn O’Brien’s film Downtown 81 (1981/2000), starring a brash yet buoyant Jean-Michel Basquiat as a struggling young artist working in a then-dilapidated lower Manhattan.

2024年6月21日 · Jean-Michel Basquiat first attracted attention for his graffiti under the name "SAMO" in New York City. He sold sweatshirts and postcards featuring his artwork on the streets before his...

Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged in New York as a gritty, street-smart graffiti artist crossing over from downtown origins to art gallery stardom.

2025年1月22日 · Jean-Michel Basquiat (born December 22, 1960, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died August 12, 1988, New York City) was an American painter known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text.

2017年9月20日 · “Basquiat: Boom for Real” at the Barbican Art Gallery in London thrusts ’80s provocateur Jean-Michel Basquiat back into the spotlight.

Basquiat’s graffiti was often cryptic and poetic. Watch the video below of a young Basquiat tagging the city under the name SAMO, the graffiti duo which helped bring recognition to the young artist.

As a teenager, Basquiat began creating graffiti art in the streets of New York City under the pseudonym “SAMO.” He worked alongside another artist named Al Diaz, and the two became known for their cryptic messages and drawings that appeared throughout the city.

2018年6月1日 · Basquiat emerged from New York’s graffiti scene in the 1970s, by means of his collaboration with his high-school friend Al Diaz in the street art duo SAMO. Together the pair sprayed cryptic aphorisms on subway cars and buildings in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan.