In the 1980s, Jean-Michel Basquiat first emerges on the New York art scene as a homeless street artist, and the techniques and ideas he develops on the street take his work directly into the world’s best galleries and makes him a sensation. Andy Warhol had a similar fast ascension in the art world years earlier, but he meets and begins collaborating with Basquiat at a time when his career is in decline and the prices of his work are falling.



Kwame Kwei-Armah (Director)

Anthony McCarten (Producer)
Denis O’Sullivan (Producer)
Anthony McCarten (Writer)
Paul Bettany (Cast)
Jeremy Pope (Cast)

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