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The collection, which sees works from Basquiat utilized across three different bag sizes, follows the 2022 announcement of a collaborative effort between Black Fashion Fair and the artist’s estate that allowed 10 Black designers to have “unprecedented access” to works from the King Pleasure exhibition. As Homage Year founder Antoine Manning said, this project continues […]

The FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art on Friday and seized 25 paintings attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat following questions about their authenticity. The New York Times reports investigators obtained a search warrant to access Basquiat’s “Heroes and Monsters” exhibit, which opened in February and had been set to close on June 30. The feds claim […]

Andy Warhol’s iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe was sold on Monday for a record-setting price. Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” one of several iconic images the legendary artist made of Monroe in the 1960s, sold for $195 million at Christie’s in New York. The piece is now the most expensive work by a U.S. artist that has been ever […]

The classic song “Moon River” just got a new spin.  In a new clip called “About Love,” shared Monday by Tiffany & Co., Beyoncé sings the song to Jay-Z piano-side, while channeling Breakfast at Tiffany’s in the process. The minute-and-a-half-long clip, directed by Black Is King helmer Emmanuel Adjei, and shot at iconic the Orum Residence in Los Angeles, shows Bey leaving a private […]

A California man was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in federal prison for trying to sell $6 million worth of paintings he claimed were created by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring, ABC News reports.  Philip Righter, 43, had already pleaded guilty in March to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in Miami. […]