A billionaire’s bounty of Basquiats goes on display
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Basquiat’s Untitled (Baptismal), painted in 1982, receiving a final dusting before the public opening of the exhibition, Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols, at the Perez Art Museum Miami in June. Ten of Ken Griffin's Basquiats are on loan to the museum.
PHOTO: YSA PEREZ/NYTIMES
Brett Sokol
MIAMI – An entire exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiats all owned by one man leads to the question: “Why Basquiat?”
“Did you walk in this room and smile?” Kenneth C. Griffin responded, motioning to the nine massive Basquiat paintings around us inside the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).
