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Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and ’80s shaped his vision.
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Sara Driver’s doc of THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT is just that. It is the story of the NYC Graffiti artist pre-fame. None of his most famous paintings are shown on the screen till the end of the film.
The doc begins with a lengthy History of New York City – when it was run down, ugly and poor with a high occupancy rate. As the voiceover informs, landlords were aware that they were not going to rent out their places any time soon, so they were burning them to claim the…
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