Saul Nelson

Saul Nelson is doing a PhD at Oxford.

At the Barbican: Jean-Michel Basquiat

Saul Nelson, 4 January 2018

It​ has been a good year, as these things go, for diversity in London’s galleries. Soul of a Nation, Queer British Art, Rose Wylie: Quack Quack and now Basquiat: Boom for Real have brought the work of queer, black, elderly and female artists into mainstream exhibitions. Of course, Jean-Michel Basquiat is a star – it happened more or less instantly after his move from street...

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