Jean-Michel Basquiat: Venta Plate Miguel Flores-Vianna preparatory studies

preparatory studies

and Walton Ford shares a new series of watercolor paintings depicting California through an amalgam of its myths

variously take as their subject matter images from newspapers and science journals

Fifty-two years later he was invited to return to exhibit his work in dialogue with the spiritual place

including those of Clarice Lispector

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Venta Plate Miguel Flores-Vianna preparatory studiesProduced by Ligne Blanche in Paris in collaboration with the Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat, this Limoges porcelain plate reproduces Basquiats painting The Mechanics That Always Have a Gear Left Over (1988), which features a dog and a mouse in a state between life and death. The animals stand in rigid positions and their eyes are crossed out. The dog clutches poles and wires as lightning strikes, suggesting an imminent mishap. Also shown is a crossed