Since we're on the subject, here's a link to a beautifully-written 1999 piece on the transitory nature of the 80s East Village scene, from which Basquiat emerge

Since we're on the subject, here's a link to a beautifully-written 1999 piece on the transitory nature of the 80s East Village scene, from which Basquiat emerged: https://www.artforum.com/print/199908/crime-and-misdemeanors-834 https://www.artforum.com/print/199908/crime-and-misdemeanors... The author, Gary Indiana, was the art critic at the Village Voice for several of those years. His fiction can be off-putting, but he was there for it all and his wised-up nostalgia is perfect for the subject. Here's a similar piece of his, from 2004, that's a little more forgiving: https://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/features/10557/ https://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/features/10557/