Jean-Michel Basquiat, Downtown ’81, Deitch Projects, Poster, 2001

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Downtown ’81, Deitch Projects, Poster, 2001.

Size: 17.25 x 11.25 inches.

Today the film Downtown 81 (produced by Maripol, directed by Edo Bartoglio with a screenplay by Glenn O’Brien, and starring Jean-Michel Basquiat) is celebrated as a definitive record of the post-punk art and music scene that flourished in New York in the 1980s.  Although the movie was filmed in the 1980s, it was only completed in 2000, and is rarely shown. This striking poster that is definitely worth framing, announces an exhibition about the film at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in 2001.

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In the course of fourteen years in New York’s Soho arts’ district, Deitch Projects completely reconfigured people’s expectations about art. Its founder Jeffrey Deitch was already a well-known art advisor, curator and critic when in 1996 he decided to open his own gallery, where he remained committed to the populist…