When Michael Holman moved from San Francisco to New York City in 1978, he planned to become a banker on Wall Street before being submerged in the downtown art and emerging hip-hop scene. A year later, ...

Brooklyn has produced many artists who have influenced the entire world, and one of best known is Jean-Michel Basquiat. Through his productive years, art critics agree, he revolutionized the art world ...

Performance artist Michael Holman is reviving Gray, his industrial noise band formed in 1981 with Jean-Michel Basquiat, and later Vincent Gallo, Shannon Dawson, Wayne Clifford and Nick Taylor. The ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat, the late Neo-Expressionist, is best known for his colorful and raw canvases. But the artist also played a hand in the release of an iconic ’80s hip hop song, having produced and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a culture maven and arts enthusiast. View of the entrance of the exhibit and the Liberty statue, one of the 120 artwork from ...