Jean-Michel Basquiat at Sotheby’s: “I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second installment with Sara Driver and Alexis Adler on Jean-Michel Basquiat, we discuss a panel at The New School with Al Diaz, Michael Holman and Annina Nosei that Alexis attended, Kevin Young’s book To Repel Ghosts, Afrika Bambaataa at the Ritz, Public Enemy (Chuck D and Flavor Flav) at The World, Spring/Break, and the Bishop Gallery connection to her recent Hbcu (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Our Friend, Jean tour.
Also: Sara on prophet artists, Beck Underwood’s fantastic Super 8 clothesline animation for the Michael Holman Gray story, screening Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat at Miami Basel, and teaching kids at NYU to “make your mistakes.”
Sara Driver with Alexis Adler and Anne-Katrin Titze on New York in the late Seventies,...
In the second installment with Sara Driver and Alexis Adler on Jean-Michel Basquiat, we discuss a panel at The New School with Al Diaz, Michael Holman and Annina Nosei that Alexis attended, Kevin Young’s book To Repel Ghosts, Afrika Bambaataa at the Ritz, Public Enemy (Chuck D and Flavor Flav) at The World, Spring/Break, and the Bishop Gallery connection to her recent Hbcu (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Our Friend, Jean tour.
Also: Sara on prophet artists, Beck Underwood’s fantastic Super 8 clothesline animation for the Michael Holman Gray story, screening Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat at Miami Basel, and teaching kids at NYU to “make your mistakes.”
Sara Driver with Alexis Adler and Anne-Katrin Titze on New York in the late Seventies,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Jean-Michel Basquiat in Gray with Michael Holman and Shannon Dawson (Konk), seen in Sara Driver’s Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat Photo: Nick Taylor (Gray), courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
Anthony McCarten’s The Collaboration (currently on Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club) with Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Paul Bettany as Andy Warhol, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah takes liberties with time while Sara Driver’s inspiring Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2018) captures the artist and the scene around him through on-camera interviews with Jim Jarmusch, Carlo McCormick, Fred Brathwaite (aka Fab 5 Freddy), Sur Rodney (Sur), Glenn O’Brien, Kenny Scharf, Lee Quiñones, Patricia Field, Jamie Nares, Lucy Sante, Al Diaz, Michael Holman, Jennifer Jazz, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Mary-Ann Monforton, Bud Kliment, Felice Rosser, and Alexis Adler, who says “If we don't tell the history, then others will, who weren't there and don't know the truth.
Anthony McCarten’s The Collaboration (currently on Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club) with Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Paul Bettany as Andy Warhol, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah takes liberties with time while Sara Driver’s inspiring Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2018) captures the artist and the scene around him through on-camera interviews with Jim Jarmusch, Carlo McCormick, Fred Brathwaite (aka Fab 5 Freddy), Sur Rodney (Sur), Glenn O’Brien, Kenny Scharf, Lee Quiñones, Patricia Field, Jamie Nares, Lucy Sante, Al Diaz, Michael Holman, Jennifer Jazz, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Mary-Ann Monforton, Bud Kliment, Felice Rosser, and Alexis Adler, who says “If we don't tell the history, then others will, who weren't there and don't know the truth.
- 1/27/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
New documentary Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat reveals his early career, from the mob and Xerox machines to being a bad house guest
Jean-Michel Basquiat was a pain in the neck. In the late 1970s and 80s he was without a fixed abode and spent a lot of time sleeping on other people’s sofas. Basquiat wasn’t averse to painting his housemates’ clothes and fridge, or dropping in at 3am, pumping industrial music on his boombox, much to the consternation of the building’s “super”. “He was a kid,” laughs Sara Driver, the creator of Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a documentary that recounts the early life and precocious times of the NYC street kid and nascent painter.
Drawing from interview and archive footage, as well as a remarkable cache of art and ephemera belonging to Basquiat’s former girlfriend Alexis Adler,...
Jean-Michel Basquiat was a pain in the neck. In the late 1970s and 80s he was without a fixed abode and spent a lot of time sleeping on other people’s sofas. Basquiat wasn’t averse to painting his housemates’ clothes and fridge, or dropping in at 3am, pumping industrial music on his boombox, much to the consternation of the building’s “super”. “He was a kid,” laughs Sara Driver, the creator of Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a documentary that recounts the early life and precocious times of the NYC street kid and nascent painter.
Drawing from interview and archive footage, as well as a remarkable cache of art and ephemera belonging to Basquiat’s former girlfriend Alexis Adler,...
- 6/19/2018
- by Alex Rayner
- The Guardian - Film News
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