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Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks at the Brooklyn Museum. On view until August 23, 2015
The first major exhibition of the artist's notebooks, features 160 pages of rarely seen documents, along with works on paper and paintings.

Brooklyn-born artist Jean-Michel Basquiat filled numerous notebooks with poetry fragments, wordplay, sketches, and personal observations ranging from street life and popular culture to themes of race, class, and world history. The first major exhibition of the artist’s notebooks, Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks