Basketball Grin

This collaborative piece commemorates ten years of the district's history

Filled with the artist's signature mix of pop culture

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and ultimately shows us how contemporary art can be seen as part of a continuum or lineage

Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation - Last Chance Art Supplies Basketball GrinIn the early 1980s, art and writing labeled as graffiti began to transition from New York City walls and subway trains onto canvas and into art galleries. Young artists who freely sampled from their urban experiences and their largely Black, Latinx and immigrant histories infused the downtown art scene with expressionist, pop and graffiti inspired compositions. Jean Michel Basquiat (196088) became the galvanizing, iconic frontrunner of this