The Art Angle Podcast: Want to Wear a Basquiat? Inside the Big Business of Artist Merch | Artnet News

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Want to wear a Basquiat? On this week's Art Angle podcast, we take a look inside the big business of artist merch:

Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join us every week for an in-depth look at what matters most in museums, the art market, and much more, with input from our own writers and editors, as well as artists, curators, and other top experts in the field.

Today, Jean-Michel Basquiat is unquestionably one of the most recognizable and beloved artists on the planet. A native New Yorker of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, Basquiat first attracted attention as a teenage graffiti writer in the late 1970s before rapidly transitioning into the role of international sensation in the newly glamorous, increasingly global gallery world of the 1980s.

Tragically, Basquiat died from an overdose at the age of 27. His short artistic career makes it all the more remarkable that

 

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