City of Toronto All Events http://ift.tt/1z5mIta Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now's the Time will feature over 80 artworks – primarily large-scale paintings and drawings – from private collections and public museums across Europe and North America. The exhibition will explore Basquiat's groundbreaking and provocative artistic approach. Famous by the age of 20, Basquiat translated 1980s New York into a radical visual language, one that confronted issues of racism, class struggle, social hypocrisy and black history. Inspired as much by high art – Abstract Expressionism and Conceptualism – as by hip hop, jazz, sports, comics and graffiti, Basquiat used recurring motifs to explore issues that he continuously grappled with in his life and art.
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