BASQUIAT (Black and White Version)

Aff's Fall Film Series Doors Open 6:00. Film Starts: 6:30 MC & Discussion Lead: KESSWA Water and Popcorn will be available. Recognition: In Partnership with UofM Humanities Seat Claim Available on Eventbrite and at the door. Donations encouraged but not required. Film Information: No painter electrified the 1980s art scene like Jean-Michel Basquiat, a New York street kid whose visionary blending of expressionism, pop art, and the radical new aesthetics of hip-hop and graffiti propelled him to international fame before a tragic early demise. Julian Schnabel’s stunning debut charts Basquiat’s dizzying rise and fall with an insider’s eye for authentic details of the downtown arts demimonde as well as a fellow postmodernist’s interest in the dream-like and surreal.