Chronology Footnotes

Chronology from exhibition “Jean-Michel Basquiat” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York October 23, 1992-February 14, 1993. Compiled by M. Franklin Sirmans

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  1. Gerard Basquiat, interview with the author, February 4, 1992.

  2. Quoted in Steven Hager, Art After Midnight: The East Village Scene (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986), p. 39.

  3. Gerard Basquiat, interview.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Gerard Basquiat, interview.

  6. Quoted in Suzi Gablik, “Report from New York: The Graffiti Question,” Art in America, 70 (October 1982), p. 36.

  7. Al Diaz, interview with the author, March 2, 1992.

  8. Quoted in Philip Faflick, “SAMO© Graffiti: BOOSH-WAH OR CIA?” The Village Voice, December 11, 1978.

  9. Quoted in Champions, exh. cat. (New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1983), p. 16.

  10. Gerard Basquiat, interview.

  11. Cathleen McGuigan, “New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist,” The New York Times Magazine, February 10, 1985, p. 29.

  12. Edit DeAk, interview with author, February 19, 1992.

  13. Henry Geldzahler, interview with author, March 16, 1992.

  14. Mary Ann Monforton, interview with author, January 31, 1992.

  15. Fred Braithwaite (Fab 5 Freddy), foreword to Havelock Nelson and Michael A. Gonzales, Bring the Noise: A Guide to Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture (New York: Harmony Books, 1991).

  16. Quoted in Hager, Art After Midnight, p. 40.

  17. Lenny McGurr (Futura 2000), interview with the author, March 17, 1992.

  18. Suzanne Mallouk, interview with the author, February 12, 1992.

  19. Faflick, “SAMO Graffiti.”

  20. Diaz, interview.

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21. 4021. Michael Holman, interview with the author, January 30, 1992.

22. Glenn O’Brien, interview with author, February 19, 1992.

23. Jeffrey Deitch, “Report from Times Square,” Art in America, 68 (September 1980), p. 61.

24. Gerard Basquiat, interview.

25. Rene Ricard, “The Radiant Child,” Artforum, 20 (December 1981), pp. 42-43.

26. Shenge Kapharoah, interview with the author, February 6, 1992.

27. Lisa Liebmann, “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Annina Nosei,” Art in America, 70 (October 1982), p. 130.

28. Jeffrey Deitch, “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Annina Nosei,” Flash Art, 16 (May 1982), p. 50.

29. William Wilson, “N.Y. Subway Graffiti: All Aboard For L.A.,” Los Angeles Times, April 16, 1982.

30. Noel Frackman and Ruth Kaufmann, “Documenta 7: The Dialogue and a Few Asides,” Arts Magazine, 57 (October 1982), p. 97.

31. Quoted in McGuigan, “New Art, New Money,” p. 74.

32. Susan Hapgood, “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Fun Gallery,” Flash Art, no. 111 (March 1983), pp, 58-59.

33. Nicolas A. Moufarrege, “East Village,” Flash Art, no. 111 (March 1983), pp. 36-41.

34. Kapharoah, interview.

35. Pat Hackett, ed., The Andy Warhol Diaries (New York: Warner Books, 1989), p. 492.

36. Ibid., p. 603.

37. McGuigan, “New Art, New Money,” p. 28.

38. Hackett, The Andy Warhol Diaries, p. 525.

39. Quoted in Anthony HadenGuest, “Burning Out,” Vanity Fair (November 1988), pp. 180-98.

40. Recounted in Mallouk, interview

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41. 6141. Hackett, The Andy Warhol Diaries, p. 545.

42. Quoted in Henry Geldzahler, “Art: From Subways to SoHo, Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Interview, 13 (January 1983), pp. 44-46.

43. Mallouk, interview.

44. Paige Powell, interview with the author, March 9, 1992.

45. Quoted in Ellen Lubell, “New Kid on the (Auction) Block,” The Village Voice, May 29, 1984, p. 45.

46. Vivien Raynor, “Art: Paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat at Boone,” The New York Times, May 11, 1984, p. 26.

47. Kate Linker, “Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Artforum, 23 (October 1984), p. 91.

48. Melode Ferguson, interview with the author, March 23, 1992.

49. Hackett, The Andy Warhol Diaries, p. 584.

50. Greg Tate, “Nobody Loves A Genius Child: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lonesome Flyboy in the ‘80s Art Boom Buttermilk,” The Village Voice, November 14, 1989, pp. 31-35.

51. McGuigan, “New Art, New Money,” p. 54.

52. Robert Farris Thompson, “Activating Heaven: The Incantatory Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat,” in Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. cat. (New York: Mary Boone-Michael Werner Gallery, 1985), n.p.

53. Glen O’Brien, “Memo,” in Jean-Michel Basquiat, exh. Cat. (New York: Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, 1989), p. 93.

54. Vivien Rayno, “Art: Basquiat, Warhol,” The New York Times, September 20, 1985, p. 91.

55. Eleanor Heartney, “Basquiat, Warhol,” Flash Art, no. 125 (December 1985-January 1986), p. 43.

56. Fay Gold, interview with the author, April 13, 1992.

57. Quoted in Phoebe Hoban, “SAMO© …Is Dead: The Fall of Jean-Michel Basquiat,” New York, September 26, 1988, p. 43.

58. Quoted in ibid., p. 44.

59. Quoted in ibid., p. 43.

60. Geoff Dunlop, “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Shooting Star” (videotape). London: Illuminations Production, 1990.

61. Demosthenes Davvetas, “Lines, Chapters, and Verses: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Artforum, 25 (April 1987), p. 120.Quoted in Hoban, “SAMO Is Dead,” p. 44.