The Musée d’art moderne is preparing two big US shows for the rentrée, and to coincide with the city’s major contemporary art fair the FIAC in Oct (21-24). A vast retrospective of Basquiat, for the 50 year anniversary of the too-soon-departed artist is programmed for 15 Oct-30 Jan, as well as a first French restrospective of bad-boy photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark (8 Oct-2 Jan).
11 av du Président Wilson, 16th.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, In Italian, 1983, Courtesy The Brandt Foundation, USA © ADAGP, Paris 2010
Jonathan Velasquez, 2004, Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and Simon Lee Gallery, London
