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The Family of Jean-Michel Basquiat Announces Tickets for Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure© On Sale Beginning Today, February 28th at kingpleasure.basquiat.com
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Renowned design brand will outfit the exhibition space to recreate the original feeling of the Michael Todd VIP Room at the Palladium.
The family commissioned internationally acclaimed architect to be the exhibition's designer. The exhibition's identity has been created by of visionary design firm . will release the accompanying book, also titled , to coincide with the exhibition. The book was authored by Jean-Michel's sisters and and his stepmother .
is divided into the following themes:
- This section of the exhibition introduces audiences to Jean-Michel, his family and his heritage with several self-portraits on display.
- This section provides an overview of Jean-Michel's childhood in Brooklyn and Puerto Rico . It will include an environmental evocation of Jean-Michel's childhood home, ephemera and works by Jean-Michel including newsletters from City-as-School, sketchbooks, personal notes and effects, home movies, interviews with family members, early drawings and sculptures.
- This section details Jean-Michel's meteoric early success and includes paintings and other ephemera.
- - Jean-Michel's Great Jones Street studio will be recreated and include paintings, drawings, sketches, personal effects, his furniture, bicycle (his main method of transportation since he had trouble catching a cab), and his videotape and book collections.
- This section will consist of several thematically arranged galleries with approximately 100 paintings and drawings. All works are owned by the Estate and most of them have never been seen before.
- In 1985, Jean-Michel created two paintings, and , for iconic NYC nightclub Palladium's VIP area, the Michael Todd Room. The exhibition will recreate this space including video and soundtrack.
- This gallery will contain oral histories from members of Jean-Michel's family and a close circle of friends as well as posthumous awards and exhibitions.
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