Editing Jean-Michel Basquiat (section)

==Biography==
===Early life: 1960–1977===
Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960, in [[Park Slope]], [[Brooklyn]], New York City, the second of four children to Matilde Basquiat (née Andrades, 1934–2008) and Gérard Basquiat (1930–2013).<ref name="Bosworth-1998 " /> He had an older brother, Max, who died shortly before Jean-Michel's birth, and two younger sisters, Lisane (b. 1964) and Jeanine (b. 1967).<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Sowa|first1=Emily|last2=Hershkowitz|first2=Toby|date=February 27, 2019|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat's sisters talk growing up with the Brooklyn-born art icon|url=https://abc7ny.com/5145785/|access-date=April 4, 2021|website=ABC7 New York|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora |first=Jana Evans |last=Braziel |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |location=Bloomington, Indiana |year=2008 |page=174 |isbn=978-0-253-35139-5}}</ref> His father was born in [[Port-au-Prince]], Haiti, and his mother was born in Brooklyn to Puerto Rican parents.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Guerrero|first=Naiomy|date=June 16, 2017|title=Basquiat's Record Sale Highlights the Invisibility of the Latinx Market|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-americas-expensive-artist-latinx-one|access-date=April 4, 2021|website=Artsy|language=en|archive-date=May 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513043631/https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-americas-expensive-artist-latinx-one|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was raised [[Catholic Church|Catholic]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 3, 2021|title=Art, Friendship, and An Awakening|work=Carnegie Magazine|url=https://carnegiemuseums.org/carnegie-magazine/spring-2021/art-friendship-and-an-awakening/|access-date=June 8, 2021|publisher=Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh|location=New York City|language=en-US}}</ref>

Matilde instilled a love for art in her young son by taking him to local art museums and enrolling him as a junior member of the [[Brooklyn Museum|Brooklyn Museum of Art]].<ref name="Bosworth-1998">{{Cite news|last=Bosworth|first=Patricia|date=August 9, 1998|title=Hyped to Death|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/09/books/hyped-to-death.html|access-date=April 4, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Pogrebin|first=Robin|date=January 11, 2018|title=Basquiat Skull Painting Is Coming to the Brooklyn Museum|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/arts/basquiat-skull-painting-is-coming-to-the-brooklyn-museum.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/arts/basquiat-skull-painting-is-coming-to-the-brooklyn-museum.html |archive-date=January 3, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=April 4, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}{{subscription required}}</ref> Basquiat was a precocious child who learned to read and write by the age of four.<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 15, 2016|title=The Ultimate Guide To Jean-Michel Basquiat|url=https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/ultimate-guide-jean-michel-basquiat/|access-date=April 4, 2021|website=Sleek|language=en}}</ref> His mother encouraged her son's artistic talent and he often tried to draw his favorite cartoons.<ref name="Jegede-2009">{{Cite book|last=jegede|first=dele|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWdFCQAAQBAJ&dq=matilde+basquiat+brooklyn+puerto+rican&pg=PA17|title=Encyclopedia of African American Artists|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|location=Santa Barbara, California|year=2009|isbn=978-0-313-08060-9|pages=17–18|language=en}}</ref> In 1967, he started attending [[Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn)|Saint Ann's School]], a private school.<ref name="Gotthardt-2017" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Curtis|first=Lisa J.|date=April 15, 2005|title=Homecoming|url=https://www.brooklynpaper.com/homecoming/|access-date=April 4, 2021|website=Brooklyn Paper|language=en-US}}</ref> There he met his friend Marc Prozzo and together they created a children's book, written by Basquiat at the age of seven and illustrated by Prozzo.<ref name="Jegede-2009" /><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Basquiat|first1=Jean-Michel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K5JIAQAAIAAJ&q=Marc+Prozzo+basquiat|title=Basquiat. Fantasmi da scacciare. Ediz. bilingue|last2=Berggruen|first2=Olivier|date=2008|publisher=Skira|isbn=978-88-6130-946-3|pages=142|language=it}}</ref>

In 1968, at the age of seven, Basquiat was hit by a car while playing in the street.{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=5}} His arm was broken and he suffered several internal injuries, which required a [[splenectomy]].<ref name="Emmerling-2003">{{cite book|last=Emmerling|first=Leonard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ildOSz1bKuMC|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1960–1988|publisher=Taschen|year=2003|isbn=3-8228-1637-X|location=|page=11}}</ref> While he was hospitalized, his mother brought him a copy of ''[[Gray's Anatomy]]'' to keep him occupied.<ref name="Hoban1988">{{citation|last=Hoban|first=Phoebe|title=SAMO Is Dead: The Fall of Jean Michel Basquiat|date=September 26, 1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7uQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|volume=21|issue=38|pages=36–44|issn=0028-7369|mode=cs1}}</ref> After his parents separated that year, Basquiat and his sisters were raised by their father.<ref name="Bosworth-1998" /><ref name="Hoban1988" /> His mother was admitted to a psychiatric hospital when he was ten and thereafter spent her life in and out of institutions.<ref>{{Harvnb|Fretz|2010|p=7}}</ref> By the age of eleven, Basquiat was fluent in French, Spanish and English, and an avid reader of all three languages.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wilson|first=Jamia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iSDtDwAAQBAJ&q=Basquiat+fluent+in+French,+Spanish+and+English&pg=PA16|title=Young Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present|date=February 1, 2018|publisher=Wide Eyed Editions|isbn=978-1-78603-158-7|pages=16|language=en}}</ref>

Basquiat's family resided in the Brooklyn neighborhood of [[Boerum Hill]] and then in 1974, moved to [[Miramar, Puerto Rico]].{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=330}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=One Basquiat|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/3356|access-date=April 4, 2021|website=Brooklyn Museum}}</ref> When they returned to Brooklyn in 1976, Basquiat attended [[Edward R. Murrow High School]].{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=21}} He struggled to deal with his mother's instability and rebelled as a teenager.<ref name="Sawyer-2017" /> He ran away from home at 15 when his father caught him [[Cannabis smoking|smoking cannabis]] in his room.{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=22}}<ref name="Bosworth-1998" /><ref name="Hoban1988" /> He slept on park benches at [[Washington Square Park]] and took [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Manatakis|first=Lexi|date=November 21, 2017|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat in his own words|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/38129/1/-jean-michel-basquiat-in-his-own-words|access-date=November 20, 2020|website=Dazed|language=en}}</ref><ref name="McGuigan-1985" /> Eventually, his father spotted him with a shaved head and called the police to bring him home.{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=23}}

In the [[Tenth grade|10th grade]], he enrolled at [[City-As-School High School|City-As-School]], an alternative high school in Manhattan, home to many artistic students who found conventional schooling difficult.<ref name="Gotthardt-2017">{{Cite web|last=Gotthardt|first=Alexxa|date=December 1, 2017|title=Basquiat Left School at 17—and Made New York Museums His Classroom|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-basquiat-left-school-17-made-new-york-museums-classroom|access-date=October 3, 2020|website=Artsy|language=en}}</ref> He would skip school with his friends, but still received encouragement from his teachers, and began to write and illustrate for the school newspaper.{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=25}} He developed the character [[SAMO]] to endorse a faux religion.{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=25-26}} The saying "SAMO" had started as a private joke between Basquiat and his schoolmate Al Diaz, as an abbreviation for the phrase "Same old shit."{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=25}} They drew a series of cartoons for their school paper before and after using SAMO©.<ref name="Faflick-2019" />

===Street art and Gray: 1978–1980===
{{quote box |width=20em |quote =  SAMO (for "same old") marked the witty sayings of a precocious and worldly teenage mind that, even at that early juncture, saw the world in shades of gray, fearlessly juxtaposing corporate [[Commodity (Marxism)|commodity structures]] with the [[Social environment|social milieu]] he wished to enter: the predominantly white art world.|source= —Franklin Sirmans, ''In the Cipher: Basquiat and Hip Hop Culture''<ref name = "Sirmans" />}} In May 1978, Basquiat and Diaz began spray painting [[graffiti]] on buildings in [[Lower Manhattan]].<ref name="Faflick-2019" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Goldstein|first=Caroline|date=June 1, 2017|title=Basquiat, the Teenage Years? A Trove of Unpublished Photos and Prints Is Released|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/basquiat-samo-al-diaz-977438|access-date=October 3, 2020|website=artnet News|language=en-US}}</ref> Working under the pseudonym SAMO, they inscribed poetic and satirical advertising slogans such as "SAMO© AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO GOD."<ref name="Faflick-2019" /> In June 1978, Basquiat was expelled from City-As-School for [[pieing]] the principal.<ref name="Haden-Guest-1988">{{Cite magazine|last=Haden-Guest|first=Anthony|date=November 1988|title=Burning Out|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1988/11/jean-michel-basquiat|access-date=November 16, 2017|magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref> At 17, his father kicked him out of the house when he decided to drop out of school.<ref name="Sotheby's-2019" /> He worked for the Unique Clothing Warehouse in [[NoHo, Manhattan|NoHo]] while continuing to create graffiti at night.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lim|first=Robert|date=October 15, 2015|title=From Unique to Uniqlo: The Malling of Soho NYC|url=https://www.heddels.com/2015/10/from-unique-to-uniqlo-the-malling-of-soho-nyc-beneath-the-surface/|access-date=October 5, 2020|website=Heddels}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Beyer|first=Gregory|date=September 30, 2007|title=$12,000 Postcards by Some Guy Named Basquiat|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/nyregion/thecity/30basq.html|access-date=October 5, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> On December 11, 1978, ''[[The Village Voice]]'' published an article about the SAMO graffiti.<ref name="Faflick-2019">{{Cite web|last=Faflick|first=Philip|date=March 20, 2019|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Birth of SAMO|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/03/20/jean-michel-basquiat-and-the-birth-of-samo/|access-date=December 26, 2020|website=The Village Voice}}</ref>

In 1979, Basquiat appeared on the live [[public-access television]] show ''[[TV Party]]'' hosted by [[Glenn O'Brien]].<ref name="Harris-2018">{{Cite news|last=Harris|first=Kelly|date=April 24, 2018|title=The Enduring Style of an Underground '80s TV Show|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/t-magazine/fashion/tv-party-1980s-style-glenn-obrien.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/t-magazine/fashion/tv-party-1980s-style-glenn-obrien.html |archive-date=January 3, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=October 5, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Basquiat and O'Brien formed a friendship and he made regular appearances on the show over the next few years.<ref name="Harris-2018" /> Eventually, he began spending time writing graffiti around the [[School of Visual Arts]], where he befriended students [[John Sex]], [[Kenny Scharf]], and [[Keith Haring]].{{Sfn|Fretz|2010|p=43}}

In April 1979, Basquiat met [[Michael Holman (filmmaker)|Michael Holman]] at the Canal Zone Party and they founded the [[noise rock]] band Test Pattern, which was later renamed [[Gray (band)|Gray]].<ref name="Afropunk-2016">{{Cite web|date=October 7, 2016|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat's prolific artwork extended well past the canvas as noise-rock band Gray|url=https://afropunk.com/2016/10/jean-michel-basquiats-prolific-artwork-extended-well-past-the-canvas-as-noise-rock-band-gray/|access-date=August 9, 2020|website=AFROPUNK|language=en-US}}</ref> Other members of Gray included Shannon Dawson, Nick Taylor, Wayne Clifford and [[Vincent Gallo]]. They performed at nightclubs such as [[Max's Kansas City]], [[CBGB]], [[Hurrah (nightclub)|Hurrah]] and the [[Mudd Club]].<ref name="Afropunk-2016" />

Around this time, Basquiat lived in the [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village]] with his girlfriend Alexis Adler, a [[Barnard College|Barnard]] biology graduate.<ref name="Straaten-2017">{{Cite news|last=Straaten|first=Laura van|date=February 13, 2017|title=The Jean-Michel Basquiat You Haven't Seen|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/arts/design/jean-michel-basquiat-artwork.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/arts/design/jean-michel-basquiat-artwork.html |archive-date=January 3, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=October 3, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He often copied diagrams of [[chemical compound]]s borrowed from Adler's science textbooks. She documented Basquiat's creative explorations as he transformed the floors, walls, doors and furniture into his artworks.<ref name="MCAD">{{Cite web|title=Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979–1980|url=https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/basquiat-basquiat|access-date=October 3, 2020|website=Museum of Contemporary Art Denver|language=en}}</ref> He also made postcards with his friend Jennifer Stein.<ref name="Dowd-2017">{{Cite news|last=Dowd|first=Vincent|date=September 25, 2017|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat: The neglected genius|language=en-GB|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41359913|access-date=October 3, 2020}}</ref> While selling postcards in SoHo, Basquiat spotted [[Andy Warhol]] at W.P.A. restaurant with art critic [[Henry Geldzahler]].<ref name="Hoban1988" /> He sold Warhol a postcard titled ''Stupid Games, Bad Ideas''.<ref name="Brumfitt-2017">{{Cite web|last=Brumfitt|first=Stuart|date=September 19, 2017|title=New York Inspiration {{!}} Tales from Teen Basquiat's Best Friend|url=https://amuse.vice.com/en_us/article/qv9q87/basquiats-best-friend|access-date=October 3, 2020|website=Amuse|language=en|archive-date=October 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022034128/https://amuse.vice.com/en_us/article/qv9q87/basquiats-best-friend|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:AsPoster-SAMO-Mania-D.-363x500.jpg|thumb|upright|SAMO Xerox poster (1979)]]
In October 1979, at [[Arleen Schloss]]'s open space called A's, Basquiat showed his SAMO montages using color [[Xerox copy|Xerox copies]] of his works.<ref>{{Cite web|last=de la Haba|first=Gregory|title=December 2012: In Conversation with Arlene Schloss|url=https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/in-conversation-with-arlene-schloss/2682|access-date=October 3, 2020|website=Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art|language=en}}</ref> Schloss allowed Basquiat to use the space to create his "MAN MADE" clothing, which were painted [[Upcycling|upcycled]] garments.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mugrabi|first=Colby|date=May 21, 2019|title=Exploring Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1970's Clothing Collection, 'Man Made.'|url=https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/paj34g/exploring-jean-michel-basquiats-1970s-clothing-collection-man-made|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524180848/https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/paj34g/exploring-jean-michel-basquiats-1970s-clothing-collection-man-made|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 24, 2019|access-date=October 3, 2020|website=Garage|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Fretz|2010|p=40}}</ref> In November 1979, costume designer [[Patricia Field]] carried his clothing line in her upscale boutique on [[8th Street and St. Mark's Place|8th Street]] in [[Greenwich Village]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-25 |title=Patricia Field's Village Shops – Village Preservation |url=https://www.villagepreservation.org/2023/10/25/patricia-fields-village-shops/,%20https://www.villagepreservation.org/2023/10/25/patricia-fields-village-shops/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=www.villagepreservation.org |language=en-US}}</ref> Field also displayed his sculptures in the store window.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Man Made by Basquiat |url=https://www.minniemuse.com/articles/musings/basquiat-man-made |access-date=August 9, 2020 |website=Minnie Muse |language=en}}</ref>

When Basquiat and Diaz had a falling out, he inscribed "SAMO IS DEAD" on the walls of [[SoHo, Manhattan|SoHo]] buildings in 1980.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Haden-Guest|first=Anthony|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ACMbY9yahNsC&q=samo|title=True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World|date=1998|publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press|isbn=978-0-87113-725-8|pages=128|language=en}}</ref> In June 1980, he appeared in ''[[High Times]]'' magazine, his first national publication, as part of an article titled "Graffiti '80: The State of the Outlaw Art" by Glenn O'Brien.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=O'Brien|first=Glenn|date=June 1980|title=Graffiti '80: The State of the Outlaw Art|journal=High Times|pages=53–54}}</ref> Later that year, he began filming O'Brien's [[independent film]] ''[[Downtown 81]]'' (2000), originally titled ''New York Beat,'' which featured some of Gray's recordings on its soundtrack.<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r551298|pure_url=yes}} Andy Kellman. ''Downtown 81 Original Soundtrack'']. Retrieved January 16, 2008.</ref>

===Rise to fame and success: 1980–1986===
In June 1980, Basquiat participated in ''[[The Times Square Show]]'', a multi-artist exhibition sponsored by [[Colab|Collaborative Projects Incorporated]] (Colab) and [[Fashion Moda]].<ref name="Brown-2012">{{Cite web|last=Brown|first=Emma|date=August 30, 2012|title=Times Square: The Underbelly of New York Culture|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/the-times-square-show-revisited|access-date=November 20, 2020|website=[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]|language=en-US}}</ref> He was noticed by various critics and curators, including [[Jeffrey Deitch]], who mentioned him in an article titled "Report from Times Square" in the September 1980 issue of ''[[Art in America]]''.<ref name="Tomkins-2007" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Deitch|first=Jeffrey|date=September 1980|title=Report from Times Square|journal=Art in America|pages=61}}</ref> In February 1981, Basquiat participated in the ''[[New York/New Wave]]'' exhibition, curated by [[Diego Cortez]] at New York's [[MoMA PS1|P.S.1]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kane|first=Ashleigh|date=January 26, 2018|title=The New York curator who helped launch Basquiat's career|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/38813/1/curator-helped-launch-basquiats-career-diego-cortez-new-york-new-wave|access-date=August 9, 2020|website=Dazed|language=en}}</ref> Italian artist [[Sandro Chia]] recommended Basquiat's work to Italian dealer Emilio Mazzoli, who promptly bought 10 paintings for Basquiat to have a show at his gallery in [[Modena]], Italy in May 1981.<ref name="McGuigan-1985" /><ref name="Maneker-2018" /> In December 1981, art critic [[Rene Ricard]] published "The Radiant Child" in ''[[Artforum]]'' magazine, the first extensive article on Basquiat.<ref name="Artforum-1981">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=December 1981|title=The Radiant Child|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/198110/the-radiant-child-35643|access-date=January 1, 2021|website=Artforum|language=en-US}}</ref> During this period, Basquiat painted many pieces on objects he found in the streets, such as discarded doors.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat: Street As Studio|url=http://basquiat.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/street-as-studio/|access-date=January 10, 2021|website=Guggenheim Museum Bilbao|language=en}}</ref>

Basquiat sold his first painting, ''[[Cadillac Moon]]'' (1981), to [[Debbie Harry]], lead singer of the punk rock band [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], for $200 after they had filmed ''Downtown 81'' together.<ref name="Eshun-2017">{{Cite news|last=Eshun|first=Ekow|date=September 22, 2017|title=Bowie, Bach and Bebop: How Music Powered Basquiat|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/arts/design/basquiat-barbican-london.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/arts/design/basquiat-barbican-london.html |archive-date=January 3, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=September 29, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He also appeared as a disc jockey in the 1981 Blondie music video "[[Rapture (Blondie song)|Rapture]]", a role originally intended for [[Grandmaster Flash]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Laneri|first=Raquel|date=July 7, 2021|title=Blondie looks back on iconic music video 'Rapture' on its 40th anniversary|url=https://nypost.com/2021/07/07/blondie-looks-back-on-iconic-80s-music-video-rapture/|access-date=February 9, 2022|website=New York Post|language=en-US}}</ref> At the time, Basquiat was living with his girlfriend, [[Suzanne Mallouk]], who financially supported him as a waitress.<ref name="Sawyer-2017">{{Cite news|last=Sawyer|first=Miranda|date=September 3, 2017|title=The Jean-Michel Basquiat I knew…|language=en-GB|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/03/jean-michel-basquiat-retrospective-barbican|access-date=October 2, 2020|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In September 1981, art dealer [[Annina Nosei]] invited Basquiat to join her gallery at the suggestion of Sandro Chia.<ref name="McGuigan-1985" /> Soon after, he participated in her group show ''Public Address''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/christies-its-culture-or-its-not-culture-an|title='IT'S CULTURE OR IT'S NOT CULTURE': An Interview with Annina Nosei|date=March 4, 2014|website=Artsy|language=en|access-date=April 4, 2019}}</ref> She provided him with materials and a space to work in the basement of her gallery.<ref name="Haden-Guest-1988" /> In 1982, Nosei arranged for him to move into a loft, which also served as a studio at 101 Crosby Street in SoHo.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Maitland|first=Hayley|date=September 20, 2017|title=American Graffiti: Memories of Jean-Michel Basquiat|url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/jean-michel-basquiat-barbican-exhibition-boom-for-real-interviews|access-date=October 5, 2020|website=British Vogue|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name="Metcalf-2018">{{Cite journal|last=Metcalf|first=Stephen|date=July–August 2018|title=The Enigma of the Man Behind the $110 Million Painting|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/jean-michel-basquiat-artist-or-celebrity/561728/|journal=The Atlantic}}</ref> He had his first American one-man show at the Annina Nosei Gallery in March 1982.<ref name="Haden-Guest-1988" /> He also painted in Modena for his second Italian exhibition in March 1982.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Emmerling|first=Leonhard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ildOSz1bKuMC&q=basquiat+modena+march+1982&pg=PA31|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1960–1988|date=2003|publisher=Taschen|isbn=978-3-8228-1637-0|pages=31}}</ref> With Basquiat saying he felt exploited, that show was canceled because he was expected to make eight paintings in one week.<ref name="McGuigan-1985" />

By the summer of 1982, Basquiat had left the Annina Nosei Gallery, and gallerist [[Bruno Bischofberger]] became his worldwide art dealer.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History|url=http://www.brunobischofberger.com/history|access-date=August 4, 2020|website=Galerie Bruno Bischofberger|language=en}}</ref> In June 1982, at 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in [[Documenta]] in [[Kassel]], Germany.<ref name="Sotheby's-2019" >{{Cite web|date=June 21, 2019|title=21 Facts About Jean-Michel Basquiat|url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/21-facts-about-jean-michel-basquiat|website=Sotheby's|access-date=August 3, 2020|archive-date=December 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224021846/https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/21-facts-about-jean-michel-basquiat|url-status=dead}}</ref> His works were exhibited alongside [[Joseph Beuys]], [[Anselm Kiefer]], [[Gerhard Richter]], [[Cy Twombly]], and [[Andy Warhol]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=documenta 7 – Retrospective – documenta|url=https://www.documenta.de/en/retrospective/documenta_7|access-date=August 3, 2020|website=www.documenta.de|archive-date=May 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518200050/https://www.documenta.de/en/retrospective/documenta_7|url-status=dead}}</ref> Bischofberger gave Basquiat a one-man show at his Zurich gallery in September 1982, and arranged for him to meet Warhol for lunch on October 4, 1982.{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|pp=134–135}} Warhol recalled, "I took a [[Polaroid SX-70|Polaroid]] and he went home and within two hours a painting was back, still wet, of him and me together."<ref name="Dazed-2019 " /> The painting, ''[[Dos Cabezas]]'' (1982), ignited a friendship between them.<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 13, 2020|title=Warhol and Basquiat|url=https://www.phillips.com/article/54957058/photographs-andy-warhol-jean-michel-basquiat-polaroid-new-york-auction|access-date=October 3, 2020|website=Phillips|language=en}}</ref> Basquiat was photographed by [[James Van Der Zee]] for an interview with [[Henry Geldzahler]] published in the January 1983 issue of Warhol's [[Interview (magazine)|''Interview'']] magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Geldzahler|first=Henry|date=March 25, 2011|title=From the Subways to Soho|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/jean-michel-basquiat-henry-geldzahler|access-date=October 4, 2020|website=Interview|language=en-US}}</ref>[[File:Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) home on 57 Great Jones Street.jpg|thumb|From 1983 to 1988 Basquiat lived at 57 [[Great Jones Street]] in [[NoHo, Manhattan|NoHo]], where he died. A plaque commemorating his life was placed outside the building in 2016.]]

In November 1982, Basquiat's solo exhibition opened at the [[Fun Gallery]] in the East Village.{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=341}} Among the works exhibited were ''[[A Panel of Experts]]'' (1982) and ''[[Equals Pi]]'' (1982).<ref>{{Cite news|last=Friedman|first=Vanessa|date=September 1, 2021|title=The Mystery of That Basquiat Painting – and Its Tiffany Blue|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/style/tiffany-basquiat-jay-z-beyonce.html|access-date=November 9, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In early December 1982,{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=172}} Basquiat began working at the Market Street studio space art dealer [[Larry Gagosian]] had built below his [[Venice, California|Venice Beach]], California home.<ref name="Hoffman-2005 " >{{Cite news |last=Hoffman |first=Fred |date=March 13, 2005 |title=Basquiat's L.A. |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-13-ca-basquiat13-story.html}}</ref> In Los Angeles, he frequented the [[Whisky a Go Go]] and [[Tail o' the Pup]] with his friend artist [[George Condo]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Amadour |date=2023-02-15 |title=15 Minutes with George Condo |url=https://lamag.com/art/15-minutes-with-george-condo |access-date=2023-12-31 |website=LAmag – Culture, Food, Fashion, News & Los Angeles |language=en}}</ref> There, he commenced a series of paintings for a March 1983 show, his second at the [[Gagosian Gallery]] in [[West Hollywood, California|West Hollywood]].<ref name="Hoffman-2005 " /> He was accompanied by his girlfriend, then-unknown singer [[Madonna]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/larry-gagosian-reminisces-about-the-days-madonna-was-his-driver-8446624.html|title=Larry Gagosian reminisces about the days Madonna was his driver|work=The Independent | location=London|first=Alice|last=Jones|date=January 10, 2013}}</ref> Gagosian recalled: "Everything was going along fine. Jean-Michel was making paintings, I was selling them, and we were having a lot of fun. But then one day Jean-Michel said, 'My girlfriend is coming to stay with me.' ... So I said, 'Well, what's she like?' And he said, 'Her name is Madonna and she's going to be ''huge''.' I'll never forget that he said that."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brant|first=Peter M.|date=November 27, 2012|title=Larry Gagosian|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/larry-gagosian|access-date=September 25, 2020|website=Interview|language=en-US}}</ref>

Basquiat took considerable interest in the work that artist [[Robert Rauschenberg]] was producing at [[Gemini G.E.L.]] in West Hollywood.<ref name="Hoffman-2005" /> He visited him on several occasions and found inspiration in his accomplishments.<ref name="Hoffman-2005" /> While in Los Angeles, Basquiat painted ''[[Hollywood Africans]]'' (1983), which portrays him with graffiti artists [[Toxic (graffiti artist)|Toxic]] and [[Rammellzee]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hollywood Africans, 1983|url=https://whitney.org/media/1326|access-date=September 26, 2020|website=whitney.org|language=en}}</ref> He often painted portraits of other graffiti artists—and sometimes collaborators—in works such as ''Portrait of [[A-One (graffiti artist)|A-One]] A.K.A. King'' (1982), ''Toxic'' (1984), and ''ERO'' (1984).<ref>{{Cite web|last=McGreevy|first=Nora|title=How Jean-Michel Basquiat and His Peers Made Graffiti Mainstream|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-basquiat-and-his-peers-brought-graffiti-art-world-180976189/|access-date=April 10, 2021|website=Smithsonian Magazine|language=en}}</ref> In 1983, he produced the hip-hop record "[[Beat Bop]]" featuring Rammellzee and rapper [[K-Rob]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nosnitsky|first=Andrew|date=November 14, 2013|title=Basquiat's 'Beat Bop': An Oral History of One of the Most Valuable Hip-Hop Records of All Time|url=https://www.spin.com/2013/11/beat-bop-basquiat-k-rob-rammellzee-freak-freak/|access-date=April 4, 2021|website=Spin}}</ref> It was pressed in limited quantities on his Tartown Inc. imprint. He created the [[cover art]] for the single, making it highly desirable among both record and art collectors.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nosnitsky|first=Andrew|date=November 14, 2013|title=Basquiat's 'Beat Bop': An Oral History of One of the Most Valuable Hip-Hop Records of All Time|url=https://www.spin.com/2013/11/beat-bop-basquiat-k-rob-rammellzee-freak-freak/|access-date=September 26, 2020|website=Spin}}</ref>[[File:Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bruno Bischofberger and Fransesco Clemente, New York, 1984.tif|left|thumb|[[Andy Warhol]], Jean-Michel Basquiat, [[Bruno Bischofberger]], and [[Francesco Clemente]] in 1984]]
In March 1983, at 22 years old, Basquiat became one of the youngest artists to participate in the [[Whitney Biennial]] exhibition of [[contemporary art]].{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=346}}<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 23, 2019|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat: 'Painter to the core'|url=https://www.christies.com/features/Jean-Michel-Basquiat-8283-1.aspx|access-date=August 3, 2020|website=Christie's|language=en}}</ref> [[Paige Powell]], an associate publisher for ''Interview'' magazine, organized a show of his work at her friend's New York apartment in April 1983.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paige Powell on documenting '80s New York |url=https://www.grandlife.com/culture/interviews/photographer-paige-powell-interview-new-york |access-date=May 29, 2022 |website=www.grandlife.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Dazed|date=January 30, 2014|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat, Reclining Nude|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/18660/1/jean-michel-basquiat-reclining-nude|access-date=July 2, 2021|website=Dazed|language=en}}</ref> Shortly after, he began a relationship with Powell, who was instrumental in fostering his friendship with Warhol.{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=346}} In August 1983, Basquiat moved into a loft owned by Warhol at 57 [[Great Jones Street]] in NoHo, which also served as a studio.{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=347}}

In the summer of 1983, Basquiat invited [[Lee Jaffe]], a former musician in [[Bob Marley]]'s band, to join him on a trip throughout Asia and Europe.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=July 15, 2019|title=The Artist Who Travelled the World with Basquiat|url=https://elephant.art/lee-jaffes-intimate-portraits-of-basquiat/|access-date=January 15, 2021|website=Elephant|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Scheinfeld|first=Jillian|date=June 27, 2019|title=The Intimate, Marijuana-Laced Portraiture of Lee Jaffe|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/lee-jaffe-jean-michel-basquiat-bob-marley-eva-prenshuber|access-date=January 15, 2021|website=Interview|language=en-US}}</ref> On his return to New York, he was deeply affected by the [[death of Michael Stewart]], an aspiring black artist in the downtown club scene who was killed by transit police in September 1983. He painted ''[[Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart)]]'' (1983) in response to the incident.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Schjeldahl|first=Peter|date=July 8, 2019|title=Basquiat's Memorial to a Young Artist Killed by Police|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/basquiats-memorial-to-a-young-artist-killed-by-police|access-date=September 25, 2020|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-us}}</ref> He also participated in a Christmas benefit with various New York artists for the family of Michael Stewart in 1983.<ref>{{Cite web|last=America *~.*|first=Haoyan of|date=December 30, 2020|title=North Store, Michael Stewart Benefit, Haring, Basquiat, Futura, Warhol, Xerox, 1983|url=http://gallery.98bowery.com/2020/north-store-michael-stewart-benefit-haring-basquiat-futura-warhol-xerox-1983/|access-date=April 9, 2021|website=Gallery 98|language=en}}</ref>

Having joined the [[Mary Boone]]'s SoHo gallery in 1983, Basquiat had his first show there in May 1984.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Raynor|first=Vivien|date=May 11, 1984|title=Art: Paintings by Jean Michel Basquiat at Boone|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/11/arts/art-paintings-by-jean-michel-basquiat-at-boone.html|access-date=February 18, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> A large number of photographs depict a collaboration between Warhol and Basquiat in 1984 and 1985.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Vanderhoof|first=Erin|date=July 31, 2019|title=Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the Friendship That Defined the Art World in 1980s New York City|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/07/andy-warhol-jean-michel-basquiat-friendship-book|access-date=January 13, 2021|magazine=Vanity Fair|language=en-us}}</ref> When they collaborated, Warhol would start with something very concrete or a recognizable image and then Basquiat defaced it in his animated style.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gotthardt|first=Alexxa|date=June 6, 2019|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat on How to Be an Artist|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artist-jean-michel-basquiat|access-date=April 30, 2021|website=Artsy|language=en}}</ref> They made an homage to the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] with ''[[Olympics (1984 painting)|Olympics]]'' (1984). Other collaborations include ''[[Taxi, 45th/Broadway]]'' (1984–85) and ''[[Zenith (1985 painting)|Zenith]]'' (1985). Their joint exhibition, ''Paintings'', at the [[Tony Shafrazi]] Gallery, caused a rift in their friendship after it was panned by critics, and Basquiat was called Warhol's "mascot".<ref name="Dazed-2019">{{Cite web|date=May 28, 2019|title=The best, worst, and weirdest parts of Warhol and Basquiat's friendship|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/44600/1/never-before-seen-photos-diary-andy-warhol-jean-michel-basquiat-friendship|access-date=August 3, 2020|website=Dazed|language=en}}</ref>

Basquiat often painted in expensive [[Armani]] suits and would appear in public in the same paint-splattered clothes.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dazed|date=February 16, 2017|title=The meaning and magic of Basquiat's clothes|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/34691/1/jean-michel-basquiat-fashion-and-sense-of-style|access-date=October 31, 2020|website=Dazed|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Cork|first=Richard|title=New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money: Art in the 1980s|year=2003|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-09509-0|page=147}}</ref> He was a regular at the [[Area (nightclub)|Area]] nightclub, where he sometimes worked the turntables as a DJ for fun.<ref>{{Cite news|last=O'Brien|first=Glenn|date=August 27, 2006|title=Culture Club|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/style/tmagazine/t_w_1576_1577_well_area_.html|access-date=June 18, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He also painted murals for the [[Palladium (New York City)|Palladium]] nightclub in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kaplan|first=Isaac|date=October 14, 2016|title=6 Iconic New York Artworks That Were Destroyed|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-6-iconic-new-york-artworks-that-were-destroyed/amp|access-date=June 18, 2021|website=Artsy|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200112/https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-6-iconic-new-york-artworks-that-were-destroyed/amp|url-status=dead}}</ref> His swift rise to fame was covered in the media. He appeared on the cover of the February 10, 1985, issue of ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'' in a feature titled "New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist".<ref name="McGuigan-1985">{{Cite news|last=McGuigan|first=Cathleen|date=February 10, 1985|title=NEW ART, NEW MONEY|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/10/magazine/new-art-new-money.html|access-date=October 31, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> His work appeared in ''[[GQ]]'' and ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', and he was interviewed for [[MTV]]'s "Art Break" segment.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Art Breaks: Jean Michel Basquiat -|url=https://www.mtv.com/video-clips/6ta8e9/art-breaks-jean-michel-basquiat|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182937/https://www.mtv.com/video-clips/6ta8e9/art-breaks-jean-michel-basquiat|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 9, 2021|access-date=July 2, 2021|website=MTV|language=en}}</ref>{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=6}} In 1985, he walked the runway for the [[Comme des Garçons]] Spring fashion show in New York.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Warhol |first1=Andy |url=http://archive.org/details/andywarholdiarie00warh |title=The Andy Warhol Diaries |last2=Hackett |first2=Pat |publisher=Warner Books |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-446-51426-2 |location=New York |pages=699}} Entry date: Sunday, December 8, 1985.</ref><ref name="Bierut-1986">{{Cite web |last=Bierut |first=Michael |date=1986 |title=IDCNY 19: News from the International Design Center Fashionable! |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/idcny-19-news-from-the-international-design-center-fashionable-bierut-michael/dQFFhGP9MnVqsQ?hl=en}}</ref>

In the mid-1980s, Basquiat was earning $1.4 million a year and he was receiving lump sums of $40,000 from art dealers.<ref name="Tarmy-2019 " >{{Cite news|last=Tarmy|first=James|date=May 16, 2019|title=How Contemporary Art Became a Fiat Currency for the World's Richest|language=en|work=Bloomberg|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/boom-review-michael-shnayerson-chronicles-contemporary-art-rise|access-date=May 12, 2021}}</ref> Despite his success, his emotional instability continued to haunt him. "The more money Basquiat made, the more paranoid and deeply involved with drugs he became," wrote journalist [[Michael Shnayerson]].<ref name="Tarmy-2019 " /> Basquiat's cocaine use became so excessive that he blew a hole in his nasal septum.<ref name="Haden-Guest-1988 " /> A friend claimed that Basquiat confessed he was on heroin in late 1980.<ref name="Haden-Guest-1988 " /> Many of his peers speculated that his drug use was a means of coping with the demands of his newfound fame, the exploitative nature of the art industry, and the pressures of being a black man in the white-dominated art world.<ref name="Wines-1988 " >{{Cite news|last=Wines|first=Michael|date=August 27, 1988|title=Jean Michel Basquiat: Hazards Of Sudden Success and Fame|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/27/arts/jean-michel-basquiat-hazards-of-sudden-success-and-fame.html|access-date=December 5, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

For what would be his last exhibition on the West Coast, Basquiat returned to Los Angeles for his show at the Gagosian Gallery in January 1986.{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=355}} In February 1986, Basquiat traveled to [[Atlanta]], Georgia for an exhibition of his drawings at Fay Gold Gallery.<ref>{{Harvnb|Hoban|1998|p=276}}</ref> That month, he participated in [[The Limelight|Limelight]]'s Art Against Apartheid benefit.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=April 17, 2018|title=Limelight, Basquiat, Afrika Bambaataa, Dondi, Art Against Apartheid, Benefit Poster, February 1986|url=http://gallery.98bowery.com/2018/limelight-basquiat-afrika-bambaataa-dondi-art-against-apartheid-benefit-poster-1986/|access-date=April 9, 2021|website=Gallery 98|language=en}}</ref> In the summer, he had a solo exhibition at [[Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac]] in Salzburg.{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=355}} He was also invited to walk the runway for [[Rei Kawakubo]] again, this time at the Comme des Garçons Homme Plus fashion show in Paris.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Basquiat |first1=Lisane |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1265004114 |title=Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure |last2=Heriveaux |first2=Jeanine |last3=Fitzpatrick |first3=Nora |date=2022 |isbn=978-0-8478-7187-2 |location=New York, NY |publisher=Rizzoli |pages=80 |oclc=1265004114}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Pace|first1=Lilly|last2=Kelly|first2=Alyssa|date=August 2, 2019|title=Comme des Garçons Muses Throughout History|url=https://www.crfashionbook.com/fashion/g28551877/comme-des-garcons-muses-alexander-mcqueen/?slide=5|access-date=August 4, 2020|website=CR Fashion Book|language=en-US}}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In October 1986, Basquiat flew to [[Ivory Coast]] for an exhibition of his work organized by Bruno Bischofberger at the French Cultural Institute in [[Abidjan]].{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=355}}<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jacobs|first=Sean|title=When Basquiat went to Africa|url=https://africasacountry.com/2013/08/when-jean-michel-basquiat-went-to-africa|access-date=August 2, 2020|website=Africa Is a Country|language=en-US}}</ref> He was accompanied by his girlfriend Jennifer Goode, who worked at his frequent hangout, Area nightclub.<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 13, 2017|title=Jennifer Goode and Area's Heydey|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/jennifer-goode|access-date=August 2, 2020|website=Interview|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Hoban|1998|p=278}}</ref> In November 1986, at 25 years old, Basquiat became the youngest artist given an exhibition at [[Kestnergesellschaft|Kestner-Gesellschaft]] in [[Hanover]], Germany.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jean Michel Basquiat – Artists – Leila Heller Gallery|url=http://www.leilahellergallery.com/artists/jean-michel-basquiat|access-date=January 4, 2021|website=www.leilahellergallery.com}}</ref>

=== Final years and death: 1986–1988 ===
During their relationship, Goode began snorting heroin with Basquiat since drugs were at her disposal.<ref name="Hoban1988" /> She said: "He didn't push it on me, but it was just there and I was so naïve."<ref name="Hoban1988" /> In late 1986, she successfully got herself and Basquiat into a [[methadone program]] in Manhattan, but he quit after three weeks.{{Sfn|Fretz|2010|p=152}} According to Goode, he did not start injecting heroin until after she ended their relationship.<ref name="Hoban1988" /> In the last 18 months of his life, Basquiat became something of a recluse.<ref name="Wines-1988" /> His continued drug use is thought to have been a way of coping after the death of his friend Andy Warhol in February 1987.<ref name="Wines-1988" /><ref name="Hoban1988" />

In 1987, Basquiat had exhibitions at Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris, the Akira Ikeda Gallery in Tokyo, and the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York.{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=357}} [[Allen Ginsberg]] photographed Basquiat at the Shafrazi gallery attending [[William Burroughs]] ‘Shotgun Artshow’ on December 17th, 1987. He designed a Ferris wheel for [[André Heller]]'s ''[[Luna Luna (1987 exhibition)|Luna Luna]]'', an ephemeral amusement park in Hamburg from June to August 1987 with rides designed by renowned contemporary artists.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mugrabi|first=Colby|date=October 30, 2018|title=Luna Luna|url=https://www.minniemuse.com/articles/musings/luna-luna|access-date=May 3, 2021|website=Minnie Muse|language=en}}</ref>

In January 1988, Basquiat traveled to Paris for his exhibition at the [[Yvon Lambert Gallery]] and to [[Düsseldorf]] for an exhibition at the Hans Mayer Gallery.<ref name="Emmerling-2003b" /> While in Paris, he befriended Ivorian artist [[Ouattara Watts]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=O'Leary|first=Hannah|date=March 22, 2018|title=Ouattara Watts – From Côte d'Ivoire to Basquiat's New York|url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/ouattara-watts-from-cote-divoire-to-basquiats-new-york|website=Sotheby's}}</ref> They made plans to travel together to Watts' birthplace, [[Korhogo]], that summer.<ref name="Emmerling-2003b">{{Cite book|last=Emmerling|first=Leonhard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ildOSz1bKuMC&q=Yvon+Lambert+Gallery+basquiat+1988&pg=PA76|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1960–1988|date=2003|publisher=Taschen|isbn=978-3-8228-1637-0|pages=76|language=en}}</ref> Following his exhibition at the Vrej Baghoomian Gallery in New York in April 1988, Basquiat traveled to [[Maui]] in June to withdraw from drug use.<ref name="Wines-1988" /><ref name="Emmerling-2003b" /> After returning to New York in July, Basquiat ran into [[Keith Haring]] on Broadway, who stated that this last encounter was the only time Basquiat ever discussed his drug problem with him.{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=304}} Glenn O'Brien also recalled Basquiat calling him and telling him he was "feeling really good."<ref name="O'Brien-2017">{{Cite web|last=O'Brien|first=Glenn|title=Glenn O'Brien on the death of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol|url=https://purple.fr/magazine/purple-25yrs-anniv-issue-28/glenn-obrien-on-the-death-of-jean-michel-basquiat-and-andy-warhol/|access-date=May 3, 2021|website=Purple|language=fr}}</ref>

Despite attempts at sobriety, Basquiat [[27 Club|died at the age of 27]] of a [[heroin overdose]] at his home on Great Jones Street in Manhattan on August 12, 1988.<ref name="Haden-Guest-1988" /><ref name="Dowd-2017" /> He had been found unresponsive in his bedroom by his girlfriend Kelle Inman and was taken to [[Cabrini Medical Center]], where he was pronounced [[dead on arrival]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Michals|first=Susan|date=November 17, 2010|title=Rare Polaroids and Snapshots of Jean-Michel Basquiat|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/11/basquiat-slide-show-201011|access-date=October 5, 2020|magazine=Vanity Fair|language=en-us}}</ref><ref name="Hoban1988" />
[[File:Jean-Michel Basquiat - grave.jpg|thumb|Basquiat's grave at [[Green-Wood Cemetery]] in Brooklyn, New York]]

Basquiat is buried at Brooklyn's [[Green-Wood Cemetery]].<ref name="Basquiat-2019" /> A private funeral was held at [[Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel]] on August 17, 1988.<ref name="Basquiat-2019">{{Cite book|last=Basquiat|first=Jean-Michel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qz9xDwAAQBAJ&q=Greenwood|title=Basquiat-isms|date=June 4, 2019|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-19283-3|pages=112–113|language=en}}</ref> The funeral was attended by immediate family and close friends, including Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente, Glenn O'Brien, and Basquiat's former girlfriend Paige Powell.<ref name="Basquiat-2019" /><ref name="O'Brien-2017" /> Art dealer [[Jeffrey Deitch]] delivered a eulogy.<ref name="Tomkins-2007">{{Cite magazine|last=Tomkins|first=Calvin|date=November 5, 2007|title=A Fool for Art|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/12/a-fool-for-art|access-date=November 20, 2020|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-us}}</ref>

A public memorial was held at Saint Peter's Church on November 3, 1988.<ref name="NYT-1988" /> Among the speakers was [[Ingrid Sischy]], who as the editor of ''[[Artforum]]'' got to know Basquiat well and commissioned a number of articles that introduced his work to the wider world.<ref>{{cite magazine | first=Ingrid | last=Sischy | date=May 2014 | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/05/jean-michel-basquiat-drawings-herbert-lenore-schorr | title=For The Love of Basquiat | magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] | access-date=December 29, 2016}}</ref> Basquiat's former girlfriend Suzanne Mallouk recited sections of [[A. R. Penck]]'s "Poem for Basquiat" and his friend [[Fab 5 Freddy]] read a poem by [[Langston Hughes]].<ref>{{Cite book |first=Phoebe |last=Hoban |title=Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art |chapter=One. Overdosing on Art |publisher=Viking |isbn=0-670-85477-8 |date=1988 |via=The New York Times |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoban-basquiat.html|access-date=June 18, 2023}}</ref> The 300 guests included musicians [[John Lurie]] and [[Arto Lindsay]], Keith Haring, poet [[David Shapiro (poet)|David Shapiro]], Glenn O'Brien, and members of Basquiat's former band Gray.<ref name="NYT-1988">{{Cite news|date=November 3, 1988|title=Basquiat Memorial|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/03/arts/basquiat-memorial.html|access-date=November 20, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In memory of the late artist, Keith Haring created the painting ''[[A Pile of Crowns for Jean-Michel Basquiat]]''.<ref>{{Cite web | first=Robin | last=Muir | date=May 7, 1999 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/keith-haring-1092216.html | title=Keith Haring | work=[[The Independent]] | access-date=December 29, 2016}}</ref> In the obituary Haring wrote for ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'', he stated: "He truly created a lifetime of works in ten years. Greedily, we wonder what else he might have created, what masterpieces we have been cheated out of by his death, but the fact is that he has created enough work to intrigue generations to come. Only now will people begin to understand the magnitude of his contribution."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Haring|first=Keith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7MXaDwAAQBAJ&q=He+truly+created+a+lifetime+of+works+in+ten+years.+Greedily%2C+we+wonder+what+else+he+might+have+created%2C+what+masterpieces+we+have+been+cheated+out+of+by+his+death&pg=PA103|title=Haring-isms|date=September 29, 2020|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-20985-2|pages=103|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Lindy|first=Percival|date=November 22, 2019|title=Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat: art stars who shone too briefly|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/keith-haring-and-jean-michel-basquiat-art-stars-who-shone-too-briefly-20191114-p53aly.html}}</ref>