Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979–1980 Cotton Made between 1976 and 1980

Made between 1976 and 1980 in Rome

which featured a robot programmed to paint geometric shapes whenever it detected movement within the exhibition space

brings together the artist’s interests in ancient Egyptian and Afrofuturist iconography

Michael Dylan Foster

reproduced on a French-fold signature

Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979–1980 Cotton Made between 1976 and 1980This catalogue was published on the occasion of Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 19791980 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Featuring a cache of paintings, drawings, photographs, and archival material from the period during which Jean Michel Basquiat shared an apartment in New Yorks East Village with his friend Alexis Adler, the exhibition provided rare insight into the Basquiats creative life at a time that shaped his artistic