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Visitors look at Jean-Michel-Basquiat’s Hollywood Africans in “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation.” The painting, an abstracted portrait of the artist and his post-graffiti movement colleagues Toxic and Rammellzee, exemplifies the subversive visual style that rocketed Basquiat onto the main stage of international art in the 1980s.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hollywood Africans (detail), 1983. Acrylic and oilstick on canvas. Whitney Museum of American Art, Gift of Douglas S. Cramer. © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.

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Young visitors draw in the Museum’s William I. Koch Gallery (Gallery 250).

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