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Jean-Michel Basqiat through Nicholas Taylor
Photographs by Nicholas Taylor.
2009.
Nicholas Taylor introduced Madonna to Jean-Michel Basquiat in the early eighties, starting a tumultuous relationship between the pop icon and late artist. It was just one of Taylor’s daily adventures as a member of pre-punk band Gray, which he played in with Basquiat.
“Jean-Michel and I hit it off right away, even though he was a few years younger than me… An average night for us consisted of stealing beers off tables at the clubs. Then we would get into the subway and he would discreetly pull out a marker and start doing his graffiti thing. It’s like he had a twitch and had to be drawing all the time.”
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