Jean Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood at NAHMAD CONTEMPORARY and Patti Astor

James Kalm has been running around the Downtown art scene longer than he ever should ever admit to. As a young artist, newly arrived in New York City, it happened that his first job after his GI Bill subsidy at the Art Students League ran out, was working at Utrecht the art supply store in the East Village. Lunch hours were spent touring this new stretch of galleries and clubs. The earliest and most recognized venue in this enclave was Patti Astor and Bill Stelling’s FUN GALLERY. Though Jean-Michel Basquiat had received attention for displays in other locations, it was at the FUN GALLERY that he became part of an avant community of artists that changed American art history. “Art and Objecthood” curated by Dr. Dieter Buchhart, is an exhibition that focuses on that part of Basquiat’s oeuvre employing aggressive sculptural, and assemblage elements. Although these “objects” still maintain their identities as things (doors, windows, mirrors, punching bags), they’re nevertheless subsumed into the artists world of color, drawing, and poetic writing. This program was recorded April 17, and 22, 2022. A musical introduction is provided by Greg Morgan.
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