The New York City street where Jean-Michel Basquiat resided and worked now bears his name. City Council and the Basquiat Estate officially designated a stretch of Great Jones Street in Manhattan’s NoHo neighborhood in honor of the late artist, who spent five years at 57 Great Jones Street, which he leased from Andy Warhol before dying of an overdose in 1988 at the age of 27. The street naming recognizes the “visionary Black artist who helped redefine modern art through his bold, expressive, and socially conscious work,” a City Council press release said.
Rather than replacing the previous street name, the city added a third sign for “Jean-Michel Basquiat Way” at the intersection of Bowery and Great Jones in what it called a “co-naming.” Basquiat’s relatives, including his sister Lisane Basquiat and nephew Raymond Joseph Basquiat, celebrated at the ceremony on Tuesday. “I feel like he changed the culture,” Raymond Joseph told ABC 7. Lisane, who administers the artist’s estate alongside...
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