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3 JULY – 1 NOVEMBER 2015
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO | BILBAO, SPAIN

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time represents one of the most important exhibitions ever devoted to this American artist and the first thematic examination of his intense career, cut short by an untimely death at age 27.

 
The exhibition includes roughly one hundred large-scale paintings and drawings from public and private collections across the United States and Europe, organized around the themes that inspired Basquiat (1960 – 1988).

 
Though only active for a brief period during the 1980s, Basquiat took the New York art world by storm and produced one of the most remarkable bodies of work of the 20th century. Regularly referencing street art and reflecting the artist’s beginnings in conceptual graffiti, Basquiat combined high and low culture to present a revealing vision of the world that he described as « a springboard to deeper truths about the individual. »