Editing Jean-Michel Basquiat (section)

===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>