Basquiat

On a grey saturday afternoon, on my way to a friend's dinner party, I saw the retrospective on Basquiat at the Brooklyn Museum. An apt quote on the artist, who's been compared to Icarus in his meteoric rise and fall:

"I believe that, as an expression of a time that is tragic like no other in the history of the world, he consciously aimed his flight in the opposite direction, toward the infernos that are unexplored even by the outcasts of humanity who live out their brief earthly existence in the sinister roar of the subway, no longer on the road, but underground, irresistibly attracted by the disturbing profundity of the abyss."

-Robert Damiani, (Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Cultural Affairs, New York