As André Heller would have everyone believe, the black frame studded with nails surrounding a picture by the artist Basquiat came from the artist himself.
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Catherine Kahlweit
Hardly any other artist, according to the announcement of the current retrospective in Vienna’s Albertina, is “as a dazzling exceptional phenomenon as representative of the 1980s and its vibrant New York art scene” as Jean-Michel Basquiat, who was born in New York in 1960. On the Museum website In addition to a bright red button “Buy your ticket now”, ten pictures from the exhibition of the man who died at the age of 27 from a heroin overdose and left more than 1000 paintings and objects as well as 2000 drawings. In particular, the sixth from the series of images, “Untitled” from 1983, is likely to attract more interest than many others.