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For Decades, Graffiti Writers Paid Tribute to Basquiat by Tagging the Artist’s Former Home. Now, It Has Been Mysteriously Whitewashed
The facade of a New York Metropolis building wherever Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked at the time of his dying has been unceremoniously whitewashed, erasing scores of tributes still left by fellow artists. Basquiat occupied the downtown loft, owned at the time by Andy Warhol, for 5 yrs, through which time he developed some of his best-recognised functions. It was there, way too, in 1988, that the 27-yr-previous artist fatally overdosed on heroin. He was proclaimed useless on arrival at a close by clinic. Because then, the making, found at 57 Wonderful Jones Road, has come to be a form of advert-hoc memorial to the late artist as graffitists pilgrimage…