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  1. A struggling artist living in a cardboard box in Tompkins Square Park works his way up the rungs of the New York art world in the eighties, thanks in part to his association with Andy Warhol, the art dealer Bruno Bischofberger, poet and critic René Ricard, and fellow artist Albert Milo.

  2. Aug 9, 1996 · Basquiat: Directed by Julian Schnabel. With Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani. The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

    • (22K)
    • Biography, Drama
    • Julian Schnabel
    • 1996-08-09
  3. Aug 16, 1996 · Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright, who gives a performance of almost mystical opacity) was at that time only a few months out of homelessness; he had lived for a time in a cardboard box. He drifted away from his middle-class home and into a world of his own, and even to his girlfriend Gina ( Claire Forlani ) he remained an enigma.

  4. Despite living a life of extreme poverty in Brooklyn, graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright) strives to rise up through the heady New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

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    • Julian Schnabel
    • R
    • Jeffrey Wright
  5. Sep 28, 2011 · This film biography chronicles the progression of Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright) and his progression from living in cardboard boxes to penthouses, his romances, his drug use, and his death in 1988...

    • 3 min
    • 457.9K
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  7. Basquiat tells the story of the meteoric rise of youthful artist Jean Michel Basquiat. Starting out as a street artist, living in Thompkins Square Park in a cardboard box, Basquiat becomes a star and a part of Andy Warhol 's art world circle.

  8. Feb 19, 2002 · "Basquiat" starts with the young artist painting graffiti on the streets on Manhattan. He may be starving but he's happy - at least until his ambitions are dashed by an...

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