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Stories of a scene

A content series about political art of the 80s and 90s in New York and its influences today – supported by the NGV's exhibition Keith Haring | Jean Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines

23 February 2020

  • Carlo McCormick, art critic in front of Keith Haring’s Malcolm X

    'We were all a little bit punk': Haring, Basquiat and the art that defined 80s New York

    New York critic and curator Carlo McCormick picks the 10 pieces that cemented the radical legacy of a game-changing art scene

12 January 2020

  • Australian artists Abdul Abdullah, Joan Ross and Vincent Namatjira

    From Abdul Abdullah to Vincent Namatjira: 10 artists forging a new political future

    A sense of crisis is pushing through the art scene, and some of Australia’s most exciting artists are smashing apart artistic convention

19 December 2019

  • An image of the young Jean-Michel Basquiat from Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

    From Paris is Burning to Boom for Real: five films to immerse you in 1980s New York

    Graffiti, vogueing, hip-hop and counterculture: it was the Big Apple in the 70s and 80s, and some of the US’s biggest artists were at the centre

27 November 2019

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring

    Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and New York in the 1980s – in pictures

    While their art dealt with urgent political issues Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat lived the social lives of rock stars
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