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• The Jean-Michel Basquiat I knew…

  03-09-2017 10:30
  The graffiti artist turned painter became the star of the 1980s New York art scene. Since his death aged 27, his reputation has soared. On the eve of a major UK show, we speak to those who knew him bestIt’s always tempting to mythologise the dead, especially those who die young and beautiful. And if the dead person is also astonishingly gifted, then the myth becomes inevitable. Jean-Michel Basquiat was just 27 when he died, in 1988, a strikingly gorgeous young man whose stunning, genre-wre
  
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• Folkestone Triennial review – the art must fit, or get lost at sea

  03-09-2017 09:00
  The third Folkestone Triennial is at its best when artists such as Richard Woods and Bob and Roberta Smith tailor striking works to the town’s geographyA small house sits marooned on the beach at Folkestone. It has a seasick tilt, as if washed up by tides to the shore. Children try to peer through its tidy windows, but they are just blanks, illusions painted on a brightly coloured structure that turns out to be somewhere between diagram and sculpture. It’s a sight gag, this cartoon b
  
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