Jean-Michel Basquiat: Hollywood Africans Skateboard Decks Oskar Schlemmer Oehlen tests the limits of

Oehlen tests the limits of both coherence and legibility

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This publication documents the thirty exhibited works—twenty-nine paintings and a vitrine sculpture containing a severed shark preserved in formaldehyde—through individual plate images

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Hollywood Africans Skateboard Decks Oskar Schlemmer Oehlen tests the limits ofThe Skateroom has collaborated with the Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat to create this set of three skateboard decks featuring Basquiats painting Hollywood Africans (1983). Hollywood Africans is from a series of Basquiats paintings that features images and texts relating to stereotypes of African Americans in the entertainment industry. It was painted while Basquiat was on an extended visit to Los Angeles in 1983. Several of the works notations are