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Canongate is out April . Throughout his short career, Jean-Michel squiat dealt in the Free Speech Makes America Great Shirt in other words I will buy this iconic. His work, which began with graffiti art in the late s before evolving into a more traditional painting practice in his early s, absorbed all kinds of flotsam from pop culture, sports, history, religion, science, and the daily news, building up a lexicon of symbols, slogans, and esoterica that became his visual signature. Since his untimely death in , however, squiat has become iconic in the icky, modern way more closely associated with high-profile bidding wars and branded merchandise than an actual creative vision. In , he became the highest-grossing American artist at auction, pulling in over $ million from works. At precisely the moment when his crowns and cryptic scrawl became a pricey shorthand for what was cool and edgy and underground, they ceased being any of it, and our collective understanding of who it was that created those things became obscured at best, irrelevant at worst. As often happens with very famous people, especially when they die young, the legend ate the man. Yet Jean-Michel squiat King Pleasure, open now on the ground floor of the Starrett-Lehigh building in Chelsea and accompanied by a beautiful catalogue from Rizzoli Electa, helps to put squiat’s overexposure in context. Couching his frantic creativity in a somewhat sanitized story of where he came from and what he was reading and thinking about and listening to as he paintedSpotify is a partner of the exhibitionit not only helps to make sense of the large body of work that squiat left behind, but also considers his extraordinary legacy. Organized by his two younger sisters and the managers of his estate, Lisane squiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, with help from his stepmother, Nora Fitzpatrick, King Pleasure is made up of more than paintings, sketches, sculpture, books, and ephemera owned by the family, many of which have never before been on public display. Mixed into the ,-square-foot-plus space, designed as a suite of nested, wood-paneled rooms by the architect David Adjaye, are also recreations of his family home and the studio on Great Jones Street where he spent the final five years of his life. The idea, as Lisane has explained it, is to bring squiat’s work and personality forward, in a way only we can, for people to immerse themselves in. We want this to be an experiential and multidimensional celebration of Jean-Michel’s life.

King Pleasure is divided into seven broad themes – Introduction, which sets the Free Speech Makes America Great Shirt in other words I will buy this scene with a map of squiat’s New York including call-outs to the schools he attended growing up and the galleries, nightclubs, and restaurants that he frequented as an adult, sweet home videos, and a selection of self-portraits Kings County, which gets into the artist’s humble early years in Brooklyn and, later, Puerto Rico after his Haitian immigrant father and Puerto Rican-American mother divorced World Famous, about his first big strides in the international art world, when he began showing work in New York, Los Angeles, and Europe Ideal, devoted to the Great Jones space owned by Andy Warhol Art Gallery, comprising an extraordinary display of about rarely or never-before-seen works, divided by subject Palladium, a recreation of that nightclub’s VIP area, the Michael Todd Room, for which squiat created two large, now-lost paintings in and Place Jean-Michel squiat, a closing tribute.