The Times Square Show
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The Times Square Show was an influential collaborative, self-curated, and self-generated art exhibition held by New York artists' group Colab in Times Square in a shuttered massage parlor at 201 W. 41
Public poster produced for The Times Square Show
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
The Times Square Show
…stay overnight. Tom Otterness's half-skeleton/half-man painted plaster sculpture Symbolic Anatomy (1980) was placed in the front window next to where Jean-Michel Basquiat wrote Free Sex over the doorway (later somebody else spray-painted over it). Justen Ladda created a monumental installation drawing in the basement…
SAMO Xerox poster (1979)
From 1983 to 1988 Basquiat lived at 57 Great Jones Street in NoHo, where he died. A plaque commemorating his life was placed outside the building in 2016; the block was named "Jean-Michel Basquiat Way" in 2025.
Basquiat's grave at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York
Basquiat's drawing of art critic Rene Ricard, Untitled (Axe/Rene) (1984)