Summary: In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and became best friends with Andy Warhol. Appreciated by both the art cognoscenti and the public, Basquiat was launched into international stardom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JEA

Summary: Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland examines the life of Peggy Guggenheim, the wealthy socialite who amassed a world-class collection of modern European and American art. Vreeland does a good job of examining the different sides to Guggenheim's life and cohering them into some sort of whole by the end of this cradle-to-grave account. She was blessed by a stroke of incredible good fortune: the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PEG

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Contents: Tourniquet (2:17) -- Sing a different song (4:17) -- Take off your eyes (5:40) -- Soft margins (4:45) -- Thundermice (3:52) -- Monday morning prayer (0:38) -- Gone (4:40) -- Marching together (3:36) -- Kathryn at night (3:39) -- Party hats & olive spats (3:24) -- Return naked (1:57)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Nero's Neptune 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EIH