Basquiat: Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) Exhibition Catalogue Flattening and simplifying a violent

Flattening and simplifying a violent event into a stylish graphic icon

This book was published on the occasion of Nam June Paik: The Late Style at Gagosian

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the first exhibition devoted to a living artist at the prestigious institution

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Basquiat: Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) Exhibition Catalogue Flattening and simplifying a violentThis publication focuses on a defining painting by Jean Michel Basquiat: Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) (1983). First shown at the artists landmark 1983 exhibition at Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, it was produced together with a group of large scale paintings in a square format that are among Basquiats most renowned. The volume analyzes this painting within the context of a dozen related works, of which seven debuted in the 1983 Gagosian