Basquiat Before the Art Boom

The phrase “boom for real” appears multiples times in the long dream of painter and cultural icon Jean-Michel Basquiat, the art world’s biggest post-Warhol rock star who, with a rock star’s tragedy, was dead at 27. In Julian Schnabel’s 1996 biopic of the man, which starred Jeffrey Wright, the phrase is discovered from an anguished voice yelling on a TV …