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Essay: Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat, Bell Hooks

Whitney Museum of American Art’s traveling exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work. Art in America 81 (June 1993), pp. 68-75+. Reprinted in Bell Hooks’ Art on My Mind: Visual Politics. New York: New Press, 1995.

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"Life Doesn't Frighten Me," Maya Angelou

Poems by Maya Angelou, paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Edited by Sara Jane Boyers. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1993.

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"Jean-Michel Basquiat" Essays by Dick Hebdige, Klaus Kertess, Rene Ricard, Greg Tate, and Robert Farris Tompson.

Biographical Chronology by Franklin Sirmans. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992

World Famous, 1983 © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat

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"Jean-Michel Basquiat" Texts by Peter M. Brant, Jeffrey Deitch, Henry Geldzahler, Keith Haring, Ted Joans, Glenn O'Brien, Francesco Pellizzi, Herb and Lenore Shorr, and Franklin Sirmans.

New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1999.

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"Basquiat" Marc Mayer ed. Co-curated and with essays by Fred Hoffman, Kellie Jones, Marc Mayer, and Franklin Sirmans.

New York and London: Brooklyn Museum in association with Merrell Publishers, 2005.

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"New York Beat: Jean-Michel Basquiat in Downtown 81," Glenn O'Brien,

O’Brien, Glenn. New York Beat: Jean-Michel Basquiat in “Downtown 81”.

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"To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minor" Kevin Young

South Royalton, Vt.: Zoland Books, 2001.